rustic

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
(rŭs'tĭk) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people. See synonyms at rural.
    1. Lacking refinement or elegance; coarse.
    2. Charmingly simple or unsophisticated.
  2. Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood: rustic furniture.
  3. Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry.
n.
  1. A rural person.
  2. A person regarded as crude, coarse, or simple.

[Middle English rustik, from Old French rustique, from Latin rūsticus, from rūs, country.]

rustically rus'ti·cal·ly adv.

Top

adjective

  1. Of or relating to the countryside: arcadian, bucolic, campestral, country, pastoral, provincial, rural. Informal hick. See urban/rural.
  2. Of a plain and unsophisticated nature: artless, homely, homespun, natural, unadorned, unpolished. See plain/fancy.

noun

    A clumsy, unsophisticated person: bumpkin, clodhopper, yokel. See ability/inability.


adj

Definition: country, rural
Antonyms: city, metropolitan, suburban, town, urban

adj

Definition: crude, uncouth
Antonyms: couth, cultured, polished, refined, sophisticated, urbane

n

Definition: person from the country, with little experience
Antonyms: city boy


1. Descriptive of rough, hand-dressed building stone, intentionally laid with high relief; used in modest structures of rural character.
2. A grade of building limestone, characterized by coarse texture.


Top
pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Characteristic of dwelling in the country.

pronunciation Our family stays in a rustic cabin during the summer.

LearnThatWord.com is a free vocabulary and spelling program where you only pay for results!

Random House Word Menu:

categories related to 'rustic'

Top
Random House Word Menu by Stephen Glazier
For a list of words related to rustic, see:

  See crossword solutions for the clue Rustic.
Top

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - rustik, grov, upoleret, landlig, bondsk, bonde-
n. - bonde, landlig person

Nederlands (Dutch)
rustiek, plattelander

Français (French)
adj. - rustique, champêtre
n. - campagnard, rustaud

Deutsch (German)
adj. - rustikal, bäuerlich
n. - Bauer

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αγροτικός, χωριάτικος, (μτφ.) άξεστος, χοντροφτιαγμένος, ρουστίκ, χωριάτικου στιλ
n. - χωρικός, χωριάτης

Italiano (Italian)
rustico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - rural, rude
n. - rústico (m), campesino (m)

Русский (Russian)
сельский, деревенский

Español (Spanish)
adj. - rústico, tosco
n. - rústico, campesino

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lantlig, okonstlad
n. - lantbo, bonde

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
乡村的, 手工粗糙的, 纯朴的, 乡下人, 农民, 村夫

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 鄉村的, 手工粗糙的, 純樸的
n. - 鄉下人, 農民, 村夫

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 전원 생활의, 시골의, 시골뜨기의
n. - 촌놈, 농부

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 田舎の, 素朴な, 田舎者の, 粗木造りの
n. - 田舎者, 農夫

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ريفي, اخرق (الاسم) شخص ريفي, ساذج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קרתני, פשוט, גס, מחוספס, לא מהוקצע, כפרי‬
n. - ‮איכר, כפרי‬


Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

Copyrights: