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In some senses, rustic is marked as derogatory. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
beautiful, cozy, hearty, leading, little, loved
VERB + RUSTIC
dish, figure, look, survey
RUSTIC + NOUN
belles, cabin, cement, country, hills, latium, length, life
PREP.
from, in, in, on, out
adj
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
She had a rustic, woodland air.
Unfinished or roughly finished.
rustic manners
Crude, rough.
Simple; artless; unaffected.
the manners not too polite nor too rustic
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
noun
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.
The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
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.
A noctuoid moth.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
adjective — awkwardly simple and provincial
adjective — characteristic of the fields or country
adjective — characteristic of rural life
rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
WiktionaryShe had a rustic, woodland air.
Wiktionarylate 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
WiktionaryThe 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, alon
WiktionaryThe King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
WiktionaryThus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
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In some senses, rustic is marked as derogatory. Watch for register when choosing this word.