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RUSTIC
bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated
(adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial; “bumpkinly country boys”; “rustic farmers”; “a hick town”; “the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists”
agrestic, rustic
(adjective) characteristic of the fields or country; “agrestic simplicity”; “rustic stone walls”
countrified, countryfied, rustic
(adjective) characteristic of rural life; “countrified clothes”; “rustic awkwardness”
rustic
(noun) an unsophisticated country person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
Unfinished or roughly finished.
Crude, rough.
Simple; artless; unaffected.
Noun
rustic (plural rustics)
A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
A noctuoid moth.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Anagrams
• Curtis, citrus, rictus
Source: Wiktionary
Rus"tic, a. Etym: [L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country: cf. F. rustique. See Rural.]
1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth.
2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." Spenser.
3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. Pope. Rustic moth (Zoöl.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvæ are called cutworms. See Cutworm.
– Rustic work. (a) (Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous. (b) (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.
Syn.
– Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; artless; honest. See Rural.
Rus"tic, n.
1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown. Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away. Pope.
2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. [Poetic]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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