Rustic
/ˈɹʌstɪk/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 an unsophisticated country person wordnet
- 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 A noctuoid moth.
- 5 Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Adjective
- 1 Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
"rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely"
- 2 Unfinished or roughly finished.
"rustic manners"
- 3 Crude, rough.
- 4 Simple; artless; unaffected.
"the manners not too polite nor too rustic"
Adjective
- 1 awkwardly simple and provincial wordnet
- 2 characteristic of the fields or country wordnet
- 3 characteristic of rural life wordnet
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.