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rustic

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rus·tic  (rstk)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people. See Synonyms at rural.
2.
a. Lacking refinement or elegance; coarse.
b. Charmingly simple or unsophisticated.
3. Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood: rustic furniture.
4. Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry.
n.
1. A rural person.
2. A person regarded as crude, coarse, or simple.

[Middle English rustik, from Old French rustique, from Latin rsticus, from rs, country; see reu- in Indo-European roots.]

rusti·cal·ly adv.

rustic
Adjective
1. of or resembling country people
2. of or living in the country
3. crude, awkward, or uncouth
4. made of untrimmed branches: rustic furniture
Noun
a person from the country [Latin rusticus]
rusticity n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.rusticrustic - an unsophisticated country person
common man, common person, commoner - a person who holds no title
coon - an eccentric or undignified rustic; "I'll be a gone coon when the battle starts"
countryman, ruralist - a man who lives in the country and has country ways
countrywoman - a woman who lives in the country and has country ways
bushwhacker, hillbilly - a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
bucolic, peasant, provincial - a country person
redneck, cracker - a poor White person in the southern United States
woodman, woodsman - someone who lives in the woods
bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
Adj.1.rustic - characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"
rural - living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"
2.rusticrustic - awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
3.rustic - characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"
rural - living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"

rustic
adjective 1. rural, country, pastoral, bucolic, sylvan, Arcadian, countrified, upcountry, agrestic << OPPOSITE urban
adjective 2. simple, homely, plain, homespun, unsophisticated, unrefined, artless, unpolished << OPPOSITE grand
noun 3. yokel, peasant, hick (informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. bumpkin, swain (archaic) hillbilly, country boy, clod, boor, country cousin, hayseed U.S., Canad. (informal) clodhopper (informal) son of the soil, clown, countryman or countrywoman << OPPOSITE sophisticate
Translations
Spanish rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adjrústico
French rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adjrustique
n (pej) → rustaud(e)

German rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adj (style, furniture) → rustikal
n (pej) (person) → Bauer m

Italian rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adjrustico/a
n (pej) → cafone/a

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I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor's little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside.
The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him.
The egregious rustic put to death A bull by stopping of its breath: Disposed the carcass in a shed With fragrant herbs and branches spread.
 
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