rustic

Plural: rustics

Noun

• A person from the countryside, often considered unsophisticated.
• 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.

Examples

• He was no rustic; his Scrabble plays were always sophisticated and high-scoring.
• rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
• rustic manners

Synonyms

agrestic, bumpkinly, countrified, countryfied, hick, unsophisticated, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, churl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, promdi, provincial, redneck, rube, rustic, woolly back, yokel

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