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rustic

noun

1 rustic

An unsophisticated country person.

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, ... show more

Polish: prowincjusz

adjective

1 rustic

Characteristic of rural life:
— Rustic awkwardness.

synonyms: countrified, countryfied.

Roget 189: urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic; domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.   

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... show more

Roget 876: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes etc. (unimportant) 643; ... show more

2 rustic

Awkwardly simple and provincial:
— Rustic farmers.

synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated.

3 rustic

Characteristic of the fields or country:
— Rustic stone walls.

synonym: agrestic.

Roget 371: agricultural, agrarian, agrestic.    arable, predial, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.   


Moby thesaurus: Arcadian, Bauer, Spartan, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, apple knocker, artless, ascetic, austere, awkward, backwoods, backwoodsman, bald, bare, boor ... show more.

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