Rustic

rustic
    adj 1: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes";
           "rustic awkwardness" [syn: {countrified}, {countryfied},
           {rustic}]
    2: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys";
       "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre
       awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: {bumpkinly}, {hick},
       {rustic}, {unsophisticated}]
    3: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic
       simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: {agrestic}, {rustic}]
    n 1: an unsophisticated country person
    

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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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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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