Rustic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people. See Synonyms at rural.
  • adj. Lacking refinement or elegance; coarse.
  • adj. Charmingly simple or unsophisticated.
  • adj. Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood: rustic furniture.
  • adj. Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry.
  • n. A rural person.
  • n. A person regarded as crude, coarse, or simple.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. country-styled or pastoral; rural
  • adj. unfinished or roughly finished work
  • adj. crude, rough
  • n. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the country; rural.
  • adj. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished.
  • adj. Coarse; plain; simple.
  • adj. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
  • n. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
  • n. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or belonging to the country or to country people; characteristic of rural life; hence, plain; homely; inartificial; countrified: as, rustic fare; rustic garb.
  • Living in the country; rural, as opposed to town-bred; hence, unsophisticated; artless; simple; sometimes in a depreciatory sense, rude; awkward; boorish.
  • Made of rustic work, especially in wood. See rustic work, below.
  • In anc. Latin manuscript, noting letters of one of the two oldest forms, the other being the square.
  • In woodwork, summer-houses, garden furniture, etc., made from rough limbs and roots of trees arranged in fanciful forms.
  • Synonyms and Pastoral, Bucolic, etc. See rural.
  • Countrified.
  • n. One who lives in the country; a countryman; a peasant; in a contemptuous use, a clown or boor.
  • n. Rustic work.
  • n. In ceramics, a ground picked with a sharp point so as to have the surface roughened with hollows having sharp edges, sometimes waved, as if imitating slag.
  • n. In entomology, a noctuid or rustic moth: as, the northern rustic, Agrotis lucernea; the unarmed rustic, A. inermis.
  • Noting a peculiar form or style of lumber with lapping edges, much used in place of clapboards for covering the exteriors of buildings and also used to some extent as a material for the ceilings and interior walls of frame houses. The commonest form consists of a board, usually about six inches in width, which is finished with a beveled edge so constructed as to lap over the lower edge of the board just above. The lower edge is finished with a bevel also, beyond which projects a short tongue, over which the upper bevel of the next lower board is to lap.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characteristic of the fields or country
  • adj. characteristic of rural life
  • adj. awkwardly simple and provincial
  • n. an unsophisticated country person
  • Equivalent
    rural    provincial   
    Antonym
    townsman   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rude    unpolished    unadorned    simple    artless    awkward    rough    honest    rural    untaught   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rural    rude    homely    humble    quaint    pretty    stately    primitive    courtly    old-fashioned