Rustic

/ˈɹʌstɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Country-styled or pastoral; rural..

Definitions by Sense

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
2. Unfinished or roughly finished.
3. Crude, rough.
4. Simple; artless; unaffected.
5. A rural person.
6. (derogatory) An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
7. (entomology) A noctuoid moth.
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Example Sentences

rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely

She had a rustic, woodland air.

With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.

To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.

rustic manners

the manners not too polite nor too rustic

Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.

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Word Forms

• more rustic
• most rustic
• rustick
• rusticke
• rustique
• rustics

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