rustic

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.

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

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rusti·cal·ly adv.

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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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rustic - 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" countrified, countryfied 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.	rustic - awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated 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" agrestic rural - living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"

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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

rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adj → rústico

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rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adj → rustique

n (pej) → rustaud(e)

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rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adj (style, furniture) → rustikal

n (pej) (person) → Bauer m

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rustic [ˈrʌstɪk] adj → rustico/a

n (pej) → cafone/a