rustic
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- rural, country, pastoral, sylvan
- uncouth, awkward, coarse, crude, rough
[noun]
Synonyms:
- yokel, boor, bumpkin, clod, clodhopper (informal), hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), peasant

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Antonyms: city slicker
Contrasted words: burgher, oppidan, townsman, cityite, urbanite, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite
Related Words: rural, exurbanite, suburbanite, agriculturalist, farmer, granger, husbandman

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I. rus‧tic¹ /ˈrʌstɪk/ adjective
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: rustique, from Latin rusticus, from rus; ⇒ rural]

1. simple, old-fashioned, and not spoiled by modern developments, in a way that is typical of the countryside:
The village had a certain rustic charm.

2. [only before noun] roughly made from wood:
a rustic chair
—rusticity /rʌˈstɪsəti, rʌˈstɪsɪti/ noun [uncountable]

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II. rustic² noun [countable]
literary someone from the country, especially a farm worker

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