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rustic

  • /ˈɹʌstɪk/

Rhymes with -ʌstɪk

adjective more rustic · most rustic · rustick · rusticke · rustique

  1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural. rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
  2. Unfinished or roughly finished. rustic manners
  3. Crude, rough.
  4. Simple; artless; unaffected. the manners not too polite nor too rustic

noun rustics · rustick · rusticke · rustique

  1. A rural person. The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
  2. derogatory An unsophisticated or uncultured person. Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.

    Similar: bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin

  3. A noctuoid moth.
  4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: agrestic, rural, bucolic, countrified, hick, bumpkinly, provincial, arcadian, pastoral, unsophisticated, countryfied, churl, rube, primitive, sturdy, hardy

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adj country-styled

Españolrústico
Portuguêsrústico
Deutschrustikal
Italianorustico, agreste
Ελληνικάαγροίκος agroíkos
Românărustic
Русскийсе́льский sélʹskij
العربيةرَيْفِيّ rayfiyy, قَرَوِيّ qarawiyy

adj crude, rough

Españolrústico

noun person from a rural area

DeutschLandei, Hinterwäldler, Hinterwäldlerin
Italianoagreste, villico, campagnolo, paesano
Русскийселянин seljanin

noun Cupha erymanthis

中文黃襟蛺蝶 /黄襟蛱蝶 huángjīnjiádié

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@misc{rustic_2026,
  title = {rustic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rustic},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}