rude

13:35 Aug 31, 2013 

I beg to differ. If the context and general language of the text is modern, then the word "rude" would be understood as meaning offensively bad-mannered, which does not appear to be the meaning intended.

11:09 Aug 31, 2013 

the question at hand is whether "rude" can be used (and it can) although, as has been pointed out, it would be an obscure and "exotic"

08:49 Aug 29, 2013 

You really haven't given enough context to know whether "rude" could be used, for your text, in its somewhat archaic sense of strong but lacking refinement. In that sense it can be applied to objects as well as people, e.g. a rude shelter. To know whether it is appropriate, we would need to know the type of text and the intended audience, whether it was set in a context that would permit slightly dated language and the way you proposed to use it in the sentence.

23:34 Aug 28, 2013 

"Rude" is mostly used nowadays to mean impolite or offensive, as has been said, though it can sometimes imply other things, particularly rough, unsophisticated or unrefined, and need not always be entirely negative (it can sometimes even have connotations of straighforwardness or honesty). But it is generally pejorative and unsuitable for your purposes. I wonder whether you were thinking of its use in the expression "in rude health", where it means vigorous or hearty (in British English, at least). Unfortunately its use in that sense is really confined to this particular expression, and can't be generalised to describe a person in this way.

23:10 Aug 28, 2013 

might be another alternative

23:02 Aug 28, 2013 

adjective
1.
having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength or bravery.

22:54 Aug 28, 2013 

Snap!

22:53 Aug 28, 2013 

Rude is somebody with no manners and has negative connotations, based on your description you are looking for something positive, right?