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 [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

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 the rustic charms of a country lifestyle
rural urban, cosmopolitan

2. simple, homely, basic, plain, homespun, unsophisticated, unrefined, artless, unpolished wonderfully rustic old log cabins
simple grand, polished, sophisticated, elegant, refined

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. N → aldeano/a m/f

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rustic [ˈrʌstɪk]

adj → rustique

n (pejorative) → rustaud(e) m/f

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rustic

n → Bauer m, → Bäuerin f

adj

(= rural) → bäuerlich; furniture, style → rustikal; rustic novel → Bauernroman m

(pej: = crude) → derb, bäurisch

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rustic [ˈrʌstɪk]

1. adj (gen) → rustico/a; (scene) → campestre

2. n (pej) → cafone/a

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rustic [ˈrʌstɪk]

1. adj (gen) → rustico/a; (scene) → campestre

2. n (pej) → cafone/a

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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 乡村的

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 做工粗糙的