What are the opposite words for polite?
Politeness is a virtue that's appreciated worldwide, but sometimes, situations call for less formal behavior or outright rudeness. One of the classic antonyms for polite is impolite, meaning lacking manners or respect. Another is discourteous, implying an intentional disregard for social norms. Uncivil is also a succinct way to describe someone who's small-minded and discourteous. Rude, brusque, and blunt may convey a sense of frankness, but they don't give much consideration to tact or sensitivity. Finally, we have ungracious, a term that indicates unwillingness to show gratitude or appreciation. While it's essential to be respectful and courteous to others, there are situations where these antonyms may come in handy.
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contemptuous
- contemptuous,
- derisory,
- hard-nosed,
- high hat,
- opprobrious,
- temperamental,
- coldshoulder,
- cold-shoulder,
- dog it,
- hard nosed,
- hardnosed,
- high mighty,
- more cold shoulder,
- more cold-shoulder,
- more coldshoulder,
- more derisory,
- more hard nosed,
- more upstage,
- most cold shoulder,
- most cold-shoulder,
- most coldshoulder,
- most derisory,
- most upstage,
- on high horse,
- up pity,
- up stage,
- up-pity,
- up-stage.
- hateful
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short
- in a nutshell,
- niggardly,
- not long,
- pint-sized,
- pocket-sized,
- runty,
- sawed-off,
- short,
- shortest,
- Curtate,
- shorthanded,
- decurtate,
- shortlived,
- Unsustained,
- boiled down,
- close ground,
- close the ground,
- close to ground,
- close to the ground,
- cut bone,
- cut the bone,
- cut to bone,
- cut to the bone,
- de creased,
- de curtate,
- de-creased,
- de-curtate,
- in adequate,
- in nutshell,
- in-adequate,
- low on,
- more abbreviate,
- more abbreviated,
- more compressed,
- more curtailed,
- more curtate,
- more decreased,
- more decurtate,
- more diminished,
- more lessened,
- more needing,
- more pint sized,
- more pint-sized,
- more pocket sized,
- more sawed-off,
- more sawedoff,
- more shortened,
- more summarized,
- more unprolonged,
- most abbreviate,
- most abbreviated,
- most compressed,
- most curtailed,
- most curtate,
- most decreased,
- most decurtate,
- most lessened,
- most needing,
- most niggardly,
- most pint sized,
- most pint-sized,
- most pocket sized,
- most pocket-sized,
- most pocketsized,
- most sawed off,
- most sawed-off,
- most sawedoff,
- most summarized,
- most unsustained,
- not protracted,
- pint sized,
- pocket sized,
- pocketsized,
- runtier,
- runtiest,
- sawed off,
- sawedoff,
- short handed,
- short lived,
- short term,
- squattier,
- squattiest,
- un prolonged,
- un sustained,
- un-prolonged,
- un-sustained,
- under sized,
- under-sized.
- vulgar
- insolent
- succinct
- brutal
- discourteous
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thoughtless
- asocial,
- Hot-headed,
- anti-social,
- anti social,
- hot headed,
- in cautious,
- in different,
- in discreet,
- in-attentive,
- in-cautious,
- in-different,
- in-discreet,
- more asocial,
- more hot headed,
- more hot-headed,
- most asocial,
- most hot headed,
- most hot-headed,
- self centered,
- selfcentered,
- un caring,
- un concerned,
- un heeding,
- un-caring,
- un-concerned,
- un-diplomatic,
- un-heeding,
- un-mindful.
- blunt
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low
- scurvy,
- undignified,
- crumbiest,
- crumby,
- crumbier,
- de graded,
- de-graded,
- dis graceful,
- dis honorable,
- dis reputable,
- dis-graceful,
- dis-honorable,
- dis-reputable,
- more undignified,
- most undignified,
- scurvier,
- scurviest,
- un becoming,
- un dignified,
- un worthier,
- un worthiest,
- un worthy,
- un-becoming,
- un-worthier,
- un-worthiest.
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rough
- brambly,
- cross-grained,
- imprecise,
- nodular,
- squally,
- uncompleted,
- unhewn,
- unshaven,
- unshorn,
- wrinkly,
- Crossgrained,
- Unprecise,
- bramblier,
- brambliest,
- cross grained,
- in harmonious,
- in-clement,
- in-harmonious,
- more buffeting,
- more crossgrained,
- more nodular,
- more ruffled,
- more stridulent,
- more uncompleted,
- more unhewn,
- more unprecise,
- more unshaven,
- more unshorn,
- most buffeting,
- most cross grained,
- most cross-grained,
- most crossgrained,
- most imprecise,
- most nodular,
- most ruffled,
- most stridulent,
- most uncompleted,
- most unhewn,
- most unprecise,
- most unshaven,
- most unshorn,
- rough and ready,
- stridulent,
- tumultous tumultuous,
- tumultous-tumultuous,
- tumultoustumultuous,
- un cut,
- un equal,
- un hewn,
- un just,
- un juster,
- un justest,
- un precise,
- un shaven,
- un-completed,
- un-cut,
- un-equal,
- un-hewn,
- un-just,
- un-juster,
- un-justest,
- un-shaven,
- wrinkliest.
- ridiculing
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mean
- liverish,
- lowborn,
- mingy,
- niggard,
- scrimpy,
- snide,
- toucher,
- second class,
- down-at-heel,
- tight-fisted,
- bad tempered,
- badtempered,
- down at heel,
- hackest,
- in effectual,
- in-effectual,
- low down and dirty,
- low down dirty,
- low-down and dirty,
- low-down dirty,
- mingier,
- mingiest,
- more down at heel,
- more down-at-heel,
- more liverish,
- more niggard,
- more tight-fisted,
- most down-at-heel,
- most liverish,
- most tight fisted,
- most tight-fisted,
- pennypinching,
- scrimpiest,
- secondclass,
- the lowest,
- tight fisted,
- touchest,
- un friendlier,
- un friendliest,
- un scrupulous,
- un washed,
- un-friendlier,
- un-friendliest,
- un-friendly,
- un-scrupulous,
- un-washed.
- heavy
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disrespectful
- aweless,
- profanatory,
- saucy,
- Disgracious,
- Unfilial,
- dis gracious,
- dis respectful,
- dis-gracious,
- dis-respectful,
- mis behaved,
- mis-behaved,
- more aweless,
- more disgracious,
- more misbehaved,
- more profanatory,
- more unfilial,
- most aweless,
- most disgracious,
- most misbehaved,
- most profanatory,
- most unfilial,
- un filial,
- un-filial.
- barbarian
- barbarous
- bluff
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crude
- loud-mouthed,
- prentice,
- ungraded,
- unsorted,
- unwrought,
- Unmilled,
- unproficient,
- in decent,
- in expert,
- in rough,
- in sensible,
- in the rough,
- in-decent,
- in-expert,
- in-sensible,
- loud mouthed,
- more barnyard,
- more loud mouthed,
- more loud-mouthed,
- more outline,
- more prentice,
- more ungraded,
- more unmatured,
- more unmilled,
- more unproficient,
- more unsorted,
- more unworked,
- more unwrought,
- most outline,
- most prentice,
- most ungraded,
- most unmatured,
- most unmilled,
- most unsorted,
- most unworked,
- most unwrought,
- out line,
- out-line,
- un enlightened,
- un gainlier,
- un gainliest,
- un gainly,
- un graded,
- un matured,
- un milled,
- un prepared,
- un proficient,
- un skillful,
- un taught,
- un trained,
- un worked,
- un wrought,
- un-developed,
- un-enlightened,
- un-gainly,
- un-matured,
- un-milled,
- un-prepared,
- un-proficient,
- un-skillful,
- un-sorted,
- un-taught,
- un-trained,
- un-worked,
- un-wrought,
- unworked.
- cruel
- disgusting
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disobliging
- unaccommodating,
- unhelpful,
- Unamiable,
- ill-disposed,
- illnatured,
- dis agreeable,
- dis obliging,
- dis-agreeable,
- dis-obliging,
- ill disposed,
- ill natured,
- illdisposed,
- more ill disposed,
- more ill-disposed,
- more illdisposed,
- more unaccommodating,
- more unamiable,
- more unhelpful,
- most ill disposed,
- most ill-disposed,
- most illdisposed,
- most unaccommodating,
- most unamiable,
- most unhelpful,
- un accommodating,
- un amiable,
- un congenial,
- un cooperative,
- un helpful,
- un pleasant,
- un-accommodating,
- un-amiable,
- un-congenial,
- un-cooperative,
- un-helpful,
- un-pleasant.
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fresh
- dewy,
- uncontaminated,
- undimmed,
- unpolluted,
- Neoteric,
- dewiest,
- dewier,
- bright-eyed,
- the latest,
- brandnew,
- Unfaded,
- Unwithered,
- be ginning,
- be-ginning,
- brand new,
- bright eyed,
- brighteyed,
- bushy tailed,
- bushy-tailed,
- bushytailed,
- de finite,
- de-finite,
- hot off press,
- hot press,
- hot the press,
- in-creased,
- just out,
- like new,
- more another,
- more beginning,
- more bouncing,
- more bright eyed,
- more bright-eyed,
- more brighteyed,
- more bushy tailed,
- more bushy-tailed,
- more bushytailed,
- more invigorated,
- more newborn,
- more refreshed,
- more rehabilitated,
- more tenderfooted,
- more uncontaminated,
- more undimmed,
- more unfaded,
- more unpolluted,
- more unwithered,
- most another,
- most beginning,
- most bouncing,
- most bright eyed,
- most bright-eyed,
- most brighteyed,
- most bushy tailed,
- most bushytailed,
- most comer,
- most invigorated,
- most neoteric,
- most newborn,
- most rehabilitated,
- most tenderfooted,
- most uncontaminated,
- most undimmed,
- most unfaded,
- most unwithered,
- not stale,
- nower,
- nowest,
- pre sumptuous,
- pre-sumptuous,
- re cent,
- re habilitated,
- re stored,
- re-habilitated,
- re-stored,
- tenderfooted,
- this season,
- this season's,
- this seasons,
- un contaminated,
- un conventional,
- un dimmed,
- un faded,
- un polluted,
- un practiced,
- un seasoned,
- un skilled,
- un touched,
- un tried,
- un trieder,
- un triedest,
- un usual,
- un wearied,
- un-contaminated,
- un-conventional,
- un-dimmed,
- un-faded,
- un-polluted,
- un-seasoned,
- un-skilled,
- un-touched,
- un-tried,
- un-trieder,
- un-triedest,
- un-used,
- un-usual,
- un-wearied,
- un-withered,
- up to date,
- what's happening,
- whats happening.
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gross
- fleshly,
- gross,
- sensual,
- undiscriminating,
- whole shebang,
- sexual,
- before deductions,
- before tax,
- in gutter,
- in the gutter,
- in-ordinate,
- low minded,
- lowminded,
- more undiscriminating,
- most barnyard,
- most undiscriminating,
- out and out,
- out right,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- out-right,
- out-righter,
- over weight,
- over-weight,
- un discriminating,
- un mitigated,
- un qualified,
- un seemlier,
- un seemliest,
- un seemly,
- un wieldier,
- un wieldy,
- un-discriminating,
- un-mitigated,
- un-qualified,
- un-seemlier,
- un-seemliest,
- un-seemly,
- un-wieldier,
- un-wieldiest,
- whole ball of wax,
- whole ball wax,
- whole enchilada,
- whole nine yards,
- whole schmear.
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harsh
- tuneless,
- unmelodious,
- Asperous,
- Stridulous,
- hardboiled,
- out of tune,
- unlevel,
- dis agreeing,
- dis sonant,
- dis-agreeing,
- dis-sonant,
- hard boiled,
- hard shell,
- hardshell,
- in compatible,
- in-compatible,
- more asperous,
- more caterwauling,
- more clashing,
- more creaking,
- more jangling,
- more out of tune,
- more out-of-tune,
- more stridulous,
- more tuneless,
- most asperous,
- most clashing,
- most creaking,
- most jangling,
- most out of key,
- most out of tune,
- most out-of-tune,
- most screeching,
- most stridulous,
- most tuneless,
- most unlevel,
- most unmelodious,
- not smooth,
- offkey,
- out of key,
- out-of-key,
- out-of-tune,
- un even,
- un level,
- un melodious,
- un-even,
- un-level,
- un-melodious,
- un-musical.
- impolite
- informal
- profane
- ruthless
- sarcastic
- surly
- terse
- unceremonious
- ungentlemanly
- ungracious
- unkind
- unmannerly
- abrupt
- appalling
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boorish
- cloddish,
- clownish,
- ill-bred,
- lowbred,
- swinish,
- uneducated,
- Clodhopping,
- Inurbane,
- Unpoised,
- bad-mannered,
- illbred,
- bad mannered,
- badmannered,
- ill bred,
- in urbane,
- in-urbane,
- more bad mannered,
- more bad-mannered,
- more badmannered,
- more cloddish,
- more clodhopping,
- more clownish,
- more ill bred,
- more ill-bred,
- more illbred,
- more inurbane,
- more lowbred,
- more out of line,
- more out of order,
- more out-of-line,
- more out-of-order,
- more swinish,
- more unpoised,
- most bad mannered,
- most bad-mannered,
- most badmannered,
- most cloddish,
- most clodhopping,
- most clownish,
- most ill bred,
- most ill-bred,
- most illbred,
- most inurbane,
- most lowbred,
- most out of line,
- most out of order,
- most out-of-line,
- most out-of-order,
- most swinish,
- most unpoised,
- out-of-line,
- out-of-order,
- un educated,
- un poised,
- un refined,
- un-educated,
- un-poised,
- un-refined.
- churlish
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coarse
- chapped,
- coarse-grained,
- foul-mouthed,
- impure,
- particulate,
- philistine,
- unpurified,
- vulgarian,
- Incult,
- coarse grained,
- coarsegrained,
- foul mouthed,
- in cult,
- in culter,
- in cultest,
- in delicate,
- in elegant,
- in-cult,
- in-culter,
- in-cultest,
- in-delicate,
- in-elegant,
- inculter,
- incultest,
- lowdown and dirty,
- lowdown dirty,
- more chapped,
- more coarse grained,
- more coarse-grained,
- more coarsegrained,
- more foul mouthed,
- more foul-mouthed,
- more rough hewn,
- more roughhewn,
- more roughneck,
- more unpurified,
- more vulgarian,
- most chapped,
- most coarse grained,
- most coarse-grained,
- most coarsegrained,
- most foul mouthed,
- most foul-mouthed,
- most particulate,
- most rough hewn,
- most rough-hewn,
- most roughhewn,
- most roughneck,
- most unpurified,
- most vulgarian,
- off color,
- offcolor,
- poor quality,
- rough hewn,
- un finished,
- un processed,
- un-finished,
- un-processed,
- un-purified.
- crusty
- curt
- derisive
- gruff
- hoarse
- horrifying
- ill-mannered
- impertinent
- impudent
- inconsiderate
- inhuman
-
merciless
- Iron-fisted,
- having a killer instinct,
- having killer instinct,
- mean machine,
- more iron-fisted,
- more ironfisted,
- most iron fisted,
- most iron-fisted,
- most ironfisted,
- un appeasable,
- un flinching,
- un forgiving,
- un pitying,
- un sympathetic,
- un yielding,
- un-appeasable,
- un-flinching,
- un-forgiving,
- un-pitying,
- un-yielding.
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nasty
- bummest,
- more polluted,
- most polluted,
- un appetizing,
- un clean,
- un cleaner,
- un cleanest,
- un cleanliest,
- un cleanly,
- un godlier,
- un godliest,
- un godly,
- un holier,
- un holiest,
- un holy,
- un-appetizing,
- un-cleaner,
- un-cleanest,
- un-cleanlier,
- un-cleanliest,
- un-cleanly,
- un-godlier,
- un-godliest,
- un-godly,
- un-holier,
- un-holiest,
- un-holy.
- primitive
-
ragged
- scraggy,
- unpressed,
- scraggiest,
- badly dressed,
- badly worn,
- motheaten,
- poorly made,
- dis organized,
- dis-organized,
- down at the heel,
- down heel,
- down the heel,
- full holes,
- in rags,
- in tatters,
- more battered,
- more fragmented,
- more frazzled,
- more patched,
- more rent,
- more shredded,
- most battered,
- most fragmented,
- most frayed,
- most frazzled,
- most rent,
- most shredded,
- most unpressed,
- scraggier,
- un kempt,
- un kempter,
- un kemptest,
- un-kempt,
- un-kempter,
- un-kemptest,
- un-pressed,
- worse for wear.
- ribald
-
savage
- ravening,
- unmodified,
- Ferine,
- fellest,
- in a state nature,
- in a state of nature,
- in state nature,
- in state of nature,
- more ferine,
- more ravening,
- more unbroken,
- more unmodified,
- most ferine,
- most ravening,
- most unbroken,
- most unmodified,
- un broken,
- un modified,
- un spoiled,
- un-broken,
- un-restrained,
- un-spoiled.
- scornful
- scurrilous
- uncivilized
-
ungenerous
- mean.
- all
- rude
- crude, savage
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raw
- unpasteurized,
- undercooked,
- Unbaked,
- more unbaked,
- more undercooked,
- more unpasteurized,
- more untreated,
- most undercooked,
- most unfashioned,
- most unpasteurized,
- most untreated,
- un baked,
- un cooked,
- un dressed,
- un fashioned,
- un frieder,
- un ripe,
- un ripest,
- un stained,
- un treated,
- un-baked,
- un-cooked,
- un-dressed,
- un-fashioned,
- un-fried,
- un-frieder,
- un-friedest,
- un-pasteurized,
- un-ripe,
- un-riper,
- un-ripest,
- un-stained,
- un-treated,
- under cooked,
- under done,
- under-cooked,
- under-done,
- unfrieder.
- not sharp
- crude, awkward
- curt, surly
- cruel, remorseless
- crude, boorish
- not fine, rude
- arrogant, insolent
- coarse, insensitive
- irritable, often due to old age
- vulgar, unpolished in manner
- vicious, pitiless; causing pain
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abrupt, rude
- curt.
- disgusting, offensive
- rude, impolite
- sickening; repulsive
- rude, annoying
- insulting, rude
- vulgar, obscene
- new, just produced
- rough, crude (to the senses)
- nasty, obnoxious
- difficult, severe
- raspy in voice
- poor, inferior
- badly behaved
- bold, disrespectful
- having bad manners
- bold, shameless
- crass
-
offensive, gaudy
- loud.
-
crude, vulgar
- low.
- mean, heartless
- brief, to the point
-
mannerly, civilized
- aloof,
- antagonistic,
- callous,
- cold,
- cool,
- disagreeable,
- discourteous,
- disrespectful,
- hateful,
- heedless,
- impolite,
- inattentive,
- inconsiderate,
- mean,
- nasty,
- rough,
- rude,
- surly,
- thoughtless,
- uncaring,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- unfeeling,
- unfriendly,
- unkind,
- unmannerly,
- unmindful,
- unpleasant,
- unrefined,
- unsociable,
- unsophisticated.
- immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion
- worn-out; in shreds
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not cooked, prepared
- raw.
- uneven, irregular
-
disrespectful, rough
- rude.
- nasty, mocking in speech
- wild, untamed
- given to scorning
- foul-mouthed, vulgar
- gruff, bearish
- brief, short
- wild, uncultured
- not nice
- without good manners
- rude, offensive
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Other relevant words
- blustering,
- sylvan,
- arrogant,
- awkward,
- banned,
- barred,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brusk,
- casual,
- conceited,
- forbidden,
- gauche,
- grungy,
- heedless,
- improper,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- informal,
- insulting,
- intolerable,
- outlawed,
- presumptuous,
- pretentious,
- prohibited,
- proscribed,
- raw,
- rustic,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shameless,
- tacky,
- unacceptable,
- unbecoming,
- ungraceful,
- unpolished,
- unrespectable,
- unsatisfactory,
- unseemly,
- untaught,
- untutored,
- vulgar,
- Clodhopping,
- Interdicted,
- lippy,
- ill-behaved.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
johnny come lately
- Antonyms:
- expert, local, national.
