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RUSTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unsophisticated country person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rustic" is a kind of...):
common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rustic"):
coon (an eccentric or undignified rustic)
countryman; ruralist (a man who lives in the country and has country ways)
countrywoman (a woman who lives in the country and has country ways)
bushwhacker; hillbilly (a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person)
bucolic; peasant; provincial (a country person)
cracker; redneck (a poor White person in the southern United States)
woodman; woodsman (someone who lives in the woods)
bumpkin; chawbacon; hayseed; hick; rube; yahoo; yokel (a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture)
Derivation:
rusticate (live in the country and lead a rustic life)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Awkwardly simple and provincial
Example:
the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
Synonyms:
bumpkinly; hick; rustic; unsophisticated
Classified under:
Similar:
provincial (characteristic of the provinces or their people)
Derivation:
rusticity (the quality of being rustic or gauche)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characteristic of the fields or country
Example:
rustic stone walls
Synonyms:
agrestic; rustic
Classified under:
Similar:
rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
Derivation:
rusticity (the quality of being rustic or gauche)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Characteristic of rural life
Example:
rustic awkwardness
Synonyms:
countrified; countryfied; rustic
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
Derivation:
rusticity (the quality of being rustic or gauche)
Context examples:
Sometimes I would steal out at night and walk under the stars once more, with the cool breeze upon my forehead; but this I had at last to stop, for I was seen by the rustics, and rumours of a spirit at Cliffe Royal began to get about.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You’ll want to spend the day inside, enjoying privacy and time together, and when you leave your room, it will be for a candlelit dinner for two in a rustic, cozy bistro that is known for its fine food.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Then with a sudden impulsive gesture he plucked a photograph from his breast-pocket and threw it on the rustic table before us.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He was dressed in rusty black, with a very broad-brimmed top-hat and a loose white necktie—the whole effect being that of a very rustic parson or of an undertaker’s mute.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He turned in some surprise towards the rustic arbour in which we sat.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
