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English Dictionary: rustic	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for rustic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rustic adj characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness" Synonym(s): countrified, countryfied, rustic awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" Synonym(s): bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" Synonym(s): agrestic, rustic n an unsophisticated country person
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rustic \Rus"tic\, a. [L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country: cf. F. rustique. See {Rural}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. [bd]Rustic lays.[b8] --Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. --Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. --Wordsworth. 2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. [bd]A rustic muse.[b8] --Spenser. 3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress. 4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. --Pope. {Rustic moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth belonging to {Agrotis} and allied genera. Their larv[91] are called cutworms. See {Cutworm}. {Rustic work}. (a) (Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous. (b) (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged. Syn: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See {Rural}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rustic \Rus"tic\, n. 1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown. Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away. --Pope. 2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. [Poetic]