rustic
Plural: rustics
Noun
- an unsophisticated country person
- A rural person.
- An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
- pl. -S one who lives in the country
Adjective Satellite
- characteristic of rural life
- "rustic awkwardness"
- awkwardly simple and provincial
- "rustic farmers"
- characteristic of the fields or country
- "rustic stone walls"
Adj
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- Crude, rough.
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
Examples
- "rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely"
- "rustic manners"
Origin / Etymology
From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.
Synonyms
agrestic, bumpkinly, countrified, countryfied, hick, unsophisticated, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, churl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, promdi, provincial, redneck, rube, rustic, woolly back, yokel
Scrabble Score: 8
rustic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordrustic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rustic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary