Rustic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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