Rustic \Rus"tic\, n.
1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude,
coarse, or dull; a clown.
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Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away.
--Pope.
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2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or
manners; an artless, unaffected person. [Poetic]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rustic \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.
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And many a holy text around she strews,
That teach the rustic moralist to die. --Gray.
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She had a rustic, woodland air. --Wordsworth.
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2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A
rustic muse." --Spenser.
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3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic
dress.
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4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. --Pope.
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Rustic moth (Zool.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and
allied genera. Their larvae 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.
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Syn: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward;
rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless;
honest. See Rural.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rustic
adj 1: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic
awkwardness" [syn: countrified, countryfied]
2: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys";
"rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of
Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly,
hick, unsophisticated]
3: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian
contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its
pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian,
bucolic, pastoral]
4: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic
simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: agrestic]
n : an unsophisticated country person
WordNet (r) 2.0
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "rustic":
Arcadian, Bauer, Spartan, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural,
agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist,
apple knocker, artless, ascetic, austere, awkward, backwoods,
backwoodsman, bald, bare, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin,
campestral, candid, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clown,
coffee-planter, collective farm worker, common, commonplace,
countrified, country, country bumpkin, country cousin, countryman,
countrywoman, crofter, cropper, crude, cultivator, direct,
dirt farmer, dry, dry farmer, dull, exurbanite, farm, farm laborer,
farmer, farmhand, frank, gawky, gentleman farmer, granger,
greenhorn, grower, guileless, harvester, harvestman, haymaker,
hayseed, hick, hillbilly, homely, homespun, husbandman, ingenuous,
jay, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lean, looby, lout, loutish,
lowland, lumpen, matter-of-fact, mossback, mountaineer, muzhik,
naive, natural, neat, oaf, oafish, open, outland, pastoral,
peasant, peasant holder, picker, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, planter, plodding, plowboy, plowman, prosaic,
prosing, prosy, provincial, pure, raiser, rancher, ranchman,
reaper, redneck, ridge runner, rough, rube, rural, severe,
sharecropper, simple, simple-speaking, sober, sower, spare, stark,
straightforward, suburbanite, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller,
tree farmer, truck farmer, unadorned, unaffected, uncomplicated,
uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, unimaginative, unmannerly,
unpoetical, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, unvarnished,
upland, woodsy, yap, yeoman, yokel
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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