Rustic

//ˈɹʌstɪk// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A rural person.

    "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."

  2. 2
    an unsophisticated country person wordnet
  3. 3
    An unsophisticated or uncultured person. derogatory

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

  4. 4
    A noctuoid moth.
  5. 5
    Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Country-styled or pastoral; rural.

    "rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely"

  2. 2
    Unfinished or roughly finished.

    "rustic manners"

  3. 3
    Crude, rough.
  4. 4
    Simple; artless; unaffected.

    "the manners not too polite nor too rustic"

Adjective
  1. 1
    awkwardly simple and provincial wordnet
  2. 2
    characteristic of the fields or country wordnet
  3. 3
    characteristic of rural life wordnet

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Example

More examples

"As we entered the shopping district Haruna's gaze darted about, just like she was a rustic from the hills, as she looked over the area."

Etymology

From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.

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