impolite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impolitus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪmpəˈlaɪt/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪt

Adjective

impolite (comparative impoliter or more impolite, superlative impolitest or most impolite)

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.

Synonyms

discourteous, uncivil, rude, unpolite
See also Thesaurus:impolite

Derived terms

Translations

not polite

Bulgarian: неучтив (bg) (neučtiv)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不禮貌, 不礼貌 (bù lǐmào)
Czech: nezdvořilý (cs) m
Finnish: epäkohtelias (fi)
French: impoli (fr), malpoli (fr)
German: unhöflich (de)
Greek: αγενής (el) m (agenís)
Hungarian: udvariatlan (hu)
Italian: scortese (it) m, maleducato (it) m, rude (it) m

Japanese: 失礼な (しつれいな, shitsurei na), 無礼な (ja) (ぶれいな, burei na)
Maori: āhuaatua
Norman: malpoli
Pashto: شډل‎ (ps) m (šaḍal), بدمخی‎ (ps) m (badmëxay)
Polish: nieuprzejmy (pl), grubiański (pl), chamski (pl)
Portuguese: indelicado (pt), impolido m
Russian: неве́жливый (ru) (nevéžlivyj)
Spanish: maleducado (es), descortés (es)
Swedish: oartig (sv)
Walloon: måpoli (wa) m, måhonteus (wa) m, ossu poli k' ene casrole di scroufier (wa) m

Latin

Adjective

impolīte

vocative masculine singular of impolītus

References

impolite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
impolite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
impolite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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