Rustic
['rʌstɪk]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
(a.) Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.
(a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
(a.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Rural, country.[2]. Countrified, unpolished, uncouth, inelegant, hoiden, hoidenish, rough, rude, outlandish, boorish, barbarous.
n. Swain, peasant, clown, boor, lout, hind, bumpkin, countryman.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Clown, boor, clod, go, leuc, booby
ANT:Beau, savant, dandy, man_of, the_wond
SYN:Rural, agricultural, bucolic, nomadic, sylvan, verdant, pastoral, rude,awkward, unpolished, clownish, clumsy, rough, coarse, plain, unsophisticated,simple, artless, primitive
ANT:Urban, oppidan, civic, fashionable, modish, elegant, sophisticated, refined,courtly, polished
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Definition
adj. pertaining to the country: rural: rude: awkward: simple: coarse: artless: unadorned: made of rustic-work.—n. a peasant: a clown: a noctuoid moth.—adj. Rus′tical.—adv. Rus′tically.—n. Rus′ticalness.—v.t. Rus′ticate to send into the country: to banish for a time from town or college.—v.i. to live in the country.—n. Rusticā′tion.—v.i. Rus′ticise.—ns. Rustic′ity rustic manner: simplicity: rudeness; Rustic′ola the European woodcock; Rus′tic-ware a terra-cotta of a light-brown paste having a brown glaze; Rus′tic-work various stonework as frosted work punctured work &c.: in woodwork summer-houses &c.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Mental dullness.
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Examples
- Had you been rustic, clownish, awkward, I should have been content. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Few rustic paths are wide enough for five, and Bella and the Secretary dropped behind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was a seat for Mr. Peggotty too, but he preferred to stand, leaning his hand on the small rustic table. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Freed from that he would have been as agreeable a specimen of rustic manhood as one would often see. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My friend knocked at the little rustic door, and knocked again without response. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They could not be the daughters of the elderly person at the table; for she looked like a rustic, and they were all delicacy and cultivation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Few of these were armed otherwise than with such rustic weapons as necessity sometimes converts to military purposes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Here follows a rustic picture of their way of life. Plato. The Republic.
- With his new knowledge he had soon fashioned pottery, decorated with rustic scenes, and exquisitely enameled, that all lovers of works of art desired at any price. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The first pieces of his rustic pottery soon reached the court of France, and Henry II and his nobles ordered vases and figures from him to ornament the gardens of their chateaux. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was a murmur of confidence and approval, and then the man who hungered, asked: Is this rustic to be sent back soon? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I should wish to stay an hour; I should linger to talk with that rustic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His rustic scenes have that same charm of fidelity to nature. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He sat on a rustic bench, and I at the tree-root. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Friar Tuck, said the Minstrel, drawing him apart from the rustics; we have started a new hare, I find. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Spence