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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPOLI'TE, a. [in and polite.] Not of polished manners; unpolite; uncivil; rude in manners.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not polite [ant: polite]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin impolitus, from in- + politus polite Date: 1739 not polite ; rude • impolitely adverb • impoliteness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (impolitest) ill-mannered, uncivil, rude. Derivatives: impolitely adv. impoliteness n. Etymology: L impolitus (as IN-(1), POLITE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Impolite Im`po*lite", a. [L. impolitus unpolishied, pref. im- not + politus, p. p. of polire to polish, refine. See Polite.] Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that someone is impolite, you mean that they are rather rude and do not have good manners. It is impolite to ask too many questions. ? polite ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, unpolished, rude, ungentlemanly, rough, boorish, savage, bearish, unrefined.

Moby Thesaurus

Gothic, Neanderthal, animal, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, coarse, crude, discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, inaffable, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, noncivilized, outlandish, pert, primitive, rough-and-ready, rude, saucy, savage, troglodytic, unaccommodating, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncomplaisant, uncourteous, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungallant, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unpolite, unrefined, untamed, vulgar, wild