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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 [ˈrʌstɪk]
adj
1. of, characteristic of, or living in the country; rural
2. having qualities ascribed to country life or people; simple; unsophisticated rustic pleasures
3. crude, awkward, or uncouth
4. made of untrimmed branches a rustic seat
5. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) denoting or characteristic of a style of furniture popular in England in the 18th and 19th centuries, in which the legs and feet of chairs, tables, etc., were made to resemble roots, trunks, and branches of trees
6. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) (of masonry) having a rusticated finish
n
1. a person who comes from or lives in the country
2. an unsophisticated, simple, or clownish person from the country
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Also called rusticwork brick or stone having a rough finish
[from Old French rustique, from Latin rūsticus, from rūs the country]
rustically  adv
rusticity  [rʌˈstɪsɪtɪ] 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 the rustic charms of a country lifestyle
rural urban, cosmopolitan
noun
yokel, peasant, hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), bumpkin, Hodge, swain (archaic), hillbilly, country boy, clod, boor, country cousin, hayseed (U.S. & Canad. informal), clodhopper (informal), son of the soil, clown, countryman or countrywoman rustics in from the country
yokel cosmopolitan, courtier, townie, city slicker, sophisticate, townsman
Translations
rustic [ˈrʌstɪk]
A. ADJ [pursuits] → rústico, del campo; [restaurant, cottage] → rústico, de campo; [style] → rústico; [setting, atmosphere] → rústico, campestre
B. Naldeano/a m/f

rustic [ˈrʌstɪk]
adjrustique
n (pejorative)rustaud(e) m/f

rustic
nBauer m, → Bäuerin f
adj
(= rural)bäuerlich; furniture, stylerustikal; rustic novelBauernroman m
(pej: = crude) → derb, bäurisch

rustic [ˈrʌstɪk]
1. adj (gen) → rustico/a; (scene) → campestre
2. n (pej) → cafone/a

rustic [ˈrʌstɪk]
1. adj (gen) → rustico/a; (scene) → campestre
2. n (pej) → cafone/a

rustic
adj rustic [ˈrastik]
1 of the countryside rustic life. landelik ريفي، قَرَوي селски venkovský landlig ländlich αγροτικός rústico maa- روستانشینی maalais- campagnard כַּפרִי देहाती, ग्राम्य seoski falusi(as), paraszti pedesaan sveita- rustico, campagnolo いなかの 시골의 kaimiškas, kaimo lauku-; zemnieku- desa landelijk bonde-, landsens wiejski rústico rustic, (de) la ţară деревенский vidiecky, dedinský podeželski rustičan lantlig, rustik เกี่ยวกับชีวิตชนบท kırsal 鄉村的 сільський دیہاتی آدمی mộc mạc
2 roughly made a rustic fence. vinnig aanmekaar geslaande غَيْر مُتْقَن прост hrubě zhotovený rustik grob χονδροειδής rústico tahumata ساخته شده از شاخ و برگ karkeatekoinen rustique מְחוּספַּס अनगढ़, अपरिष्कृत rustikalan, grubo izrađen durván megmunkált, rusztikus kasaran óheflaður, grófgerður rustico 素朴な 투박한 grubus, netašytas vienkāršs; rupjš buatan kasar ruw gemaakt grov, enkel zgrubny, toporny tosco (făcut) gro­so­lan грубо сработанный z neopracovaného dreva grob grub grovhuggen ทำหยาบ ๆ kabaca yapılmış 粗製的 грубо зроблений ناہموار کام thô sơ 糙的


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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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