rustic
Meanings
Plural: rustics
Noun
- an unsophisticated country person
- A rural person.
- An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Adjective Satellite
- characteristic of rural life
- "rustic awkwardness"
- awkwardly simple and provincial
- "rustic farmers"
- characteristic of the fields or country
- "rustic stone walls"
Adj
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- Crude, rough.
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.
Synonyms
agrestic, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bumpkinly, bydlo, carl, churl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, countrified, country bumpkin, country cousin, countryfied, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, promdi, provincial, redneck, rube, rustic, unsophisticated, woolly back, yokel
Scrabble Score: 8
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