rustic

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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