Rustic

What do we mean by rustic?

Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people. synonym: rural. adjective

Lacking the refinement or elegance associated with urban life. adjective

Charmingly simple or unsophisticated in a manner considered typical of country living. adjective

Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood. adjective

Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry. adjective

A rural person. noun

A person regarded as unsophisticated, guileless, or coarse from having been raised in the country. noun

Noting a peculiar form or style of lumber with lapping edges, much used in place of clapboards for covering the exteriors of buildings and also used to some extent as a material for the ceilings and interior walls of frame houses. The commonest form consists of a board, usually about six inches in width, which is finished with a beveled edge so constructed as to lap over the lower edge of the board just above. The lower edge is finished with a bevel also, beyond which projects a short tongue, over which the upper bevel of the next lower board is to lap.

Of or belonging to the country or to country people; characteristic of rural life; hence, plain; homely; inartificial; countrified: as, rustic fare; rustic garb.

Living in the country; rural, as opposed to town-bred; hence, unsophisticated; artless; simple; sometimes in a depreciatory sense, rude; awkward; boorish.

Made of rustic work, especially in wood. See rustic work, below.

In anc. Latin manuscript, noting letters of one of the two oldest forms, the other being the square.

In woodwork, summer-houses, garden furniture, etc., made from rough limbs and roots of trees arranged in fanciful forms.

Synonyms and Pastoral, Bucolic, etc. See rural.

Countrified.

One who lives in the country; a countryman; a peasant; in a contemptuous use, a clown or boor. noun

Rustic work. noun

In ceramics, a ground picked with a sharp point so as to have the surface roughened with hollows having sharp edges, sometimes waved, as if imitating slag. noun

In entomology, a noctuid or rustic moth: as, the northern rustic, Agrotis lucernea; the unarmed rustic, A. inermis. noun

A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.

A noctuoid moth.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Words that are spelled similarly to rustic:
rustic, fustic, lustic, rutic, bustic, rustin.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word rustic:
overtones, campground, ccc, adirondack, log, cabin, moth, logs, craftsman, camping, lodge, accommodations, picnic, picturesque, charm, simplicity, furniture, capitals, vernacular, ranger, canyon, surroundings, architecture, style, porch, cottage, shelter, hiking, chairs, rim, inn, landscape, gable, comfort, pastoral, barn, scenic, dining, countryside, structures, retreat, exterior, wooden, stone, trails, civilian, resort, ranch, roof, architectural, dialect, wilderness, register, kitchen, decorated, tables, parks, folk, bridges, gothic, historic, cooking, buildings, park, pine, walls, conservation, wood, feel, rough, contributing, recreation, scenes, brick, concrete, interior, atmosphere, listed, camp, timber, electricity, forest, restaurant, revival, structure, architect, entrance, setting, beauty, gardens, places, visitors.

Words that rhyme with rustic:
fistic, fustic, istic, pistic, bestick, cistic, mustac, bestuck, plus tick, a stick, us stick, us stuck, us tick.

Adjectives that are often used to describe rustic:
young, old, simple, honest, little, poor, unlettered, uneducated, cheerful, ignorant, plain, illiterate, fabled, uncouth, lady, down, english, average, unabashed, humble, mere, real, kind, rude, pretty, breathless, unsophisticated, innocent, excited, youthful, disposed, beautiful, drunken, complete, unsuspecting, headed, untrained, aged, simplest, true, thick, commonplace, expurgated, untutored, happy, expectant, laggard, stupid, unfortunate, humblest, uninformed, foolish, crude, anxious, respectable, wily, credulous, bold, weary, ordinary, limited, inspired, argentine, angry, bent, italian, venerable, insolent, born, meanest, raw, grown, compassionate, typical, agreeable, faithful, soft, coarse, pure, imprudent, overgrown, unscrupulous, genuine, amiable, tipsy, athenian.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective rustic:
life, bridge, simplicity, seat, bench, style, work, setting, cabins, beauty, house, furniture, charm, table, cabin, seats, bridges, scenes, character, appearance, cottage, look, lodge, manners, dance, scene, atmosphere, village, retreat, population, chair, characters, dialect, air, inn, speech, surroundings, home, gate, capitals, building, cottages, room, benches, fence, restaurant, porch, chairs, manner, dress, decor, buildings, folk, sports, language, houses, mind, architecture, figures, tables, dwelling, lover, muse, church, song, garb, moralist, lovers, youth, villages, songs, basement, quality, music, rooms, poet, temple, maiden, fashion, environment, town, chapel, feel, hut, landscape, audience, homes, hotel, design.

Consonant match to rustic:
restock, rostock, race stock, race talk, raw stock, rice stalk, rice stock.

Words that sound like rustic:
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