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Rustic

Rustic Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Rustic?
[n] an unsophisticated country person
[adj] awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [adj] characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [adj] used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [adj] characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness" Synonyms | Synonyms for Rustic: agrestic | arcadian | bucolic | bumpkinly | countrified | countryfied | hick | pastoral | provincial | rural | unsophisticated Related Terms | Find terms related to Rustic: See Also | bucolic | bumpkin | bushwhacker | chawbacon | common man | common person | commoner | coon | countryman | countrywoman | cracker | hayseed | hick | hillbilly | peasant | provincial | redneck | rube | woodman | woodsman | yahoo | yokel Rustic In Webster's Dictionary \Rus"tic\, a. [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. ``Rustic lays.'' --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} (Zo["o]l.), any moth belonging to {Agrotis} and
allied genera. Their larv[ae] 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; awkward;
rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; 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] |
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