Meaning of rustic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural
2. Unfinished or roughly finished
3. A clumsy, unsophisticated person:bumpkin, clodhopper, yokel.
4. An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
   derogatory
5. Crude, rough
6. Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people. See Synonyms at rural.
7. A noctuoid moth.
8. Simple; artless; unaffected
9. Lacking the refinement or elegance associated with urban life.
10. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
11. A rural person
12. Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood: rustic furniture.
13. Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry.
14. A rural person.
15. A person regarded as unsophisticated, guileless, or coarse from having been raised in the country.
16. of, characteristic of, or living in the country; rural
17. having qualities ascribed to country life or people; simple; unsophisticated: rustic pleasures.
18. crude, awkward, or uncouth

Equivalents

Examples

“The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.”

“The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.”

“Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.”

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