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Rustic   /rˈəstɪk/   Listen
Rustic

adjective
1.
Characteristic of rural life.  Synonyms: countrified, countryfied.  "Rustic awkwardness"
2.
Awkwardly simple and provincial.  Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated.  "Rustic farmers" , "A hick town" , "The nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
3.
Characteristic of the fields or country.  Synonym: agrestic.  "Rustic stone walls"
noun
1.
An unsophisticated country person.



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"Rustic" Quotes from Famous Books



... she who in some village-child unknown, With rustic grace and fantasy bedeck'd And in her simple loveliness alone, A sister finds;—and the long years' neglect Effaces with warm love and nursing care, And takes her heart to heart, And in her treasured treasures ...
— The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History • Francis T. Palgrave

... glad retreat, Adorn'd with bloom and scented briars,— A Cupid's model country-seat, With all that such a seat requires. A rustic thatch, a purple mountain, A sweet, mysterious, haunted fountain, A terraced lawn, a summer lake, By sun or moonbeam ever burnish'd; And then my cot, by some mistake, Unlike most cots was ...
— London Lyrics • Frederick Locker

... a minute and interesting description of this great man. Vigneul Marville says, that when he saw Corneille he had the appearance of a country tradesman, and he could not conceive how a man of so rustic an appearance could put into the mouths of his Romans such heroic sentiments. Corneille was sufficiently large and full in his person; his air simple and vulgar; always negligent; and very little solicitous ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... great chief "Kaw-shaw-gan-ce," swooped down upon the household, and, in an enormous four-horse sleigh of his own construction, took him, together with a gay and festive party of lads and lasses, off to Edwards, a village nine miles away. Here the rustic party had a "shake-down," and young Willard got fearfully sick in a dense atmosphere of tobacco smoke. The feast over, he was tightly packed in the sleigh with the buxom country girls and their muscular attendants, ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens

... Madame de Maintenon, "that any person except myself could and would detest you for the harm you have done me. Your part was to blame the postilions lightly and the rustic very positively. My equipage did not come unexpectedly, and my two outriders had ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre


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