Rustic

Definition: Rustic

Rustic

Adjective

1. Characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness".

2. Awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists".

3. Used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility".

4. Characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls".

Noun

1. An unsophisticated country person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rustic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Rustic \Rus"tic\, adjective. [Latin rusticus, from rus, ruris, the country: compare to French rustique. See Rural.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

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Synonyms: Rustic

Abode

Adjective: urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic; domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.

Agriculture

Arable, predial, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.

Commonalty

Rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked.

Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Crosswords: Rustic

Romanian (agrestic, countrified, country, home-bred, rural, russet, rustic).

Some authentic country rustic. When's the whittlin' start (Ghostkeeper; writing credit: Doug MacLeod; Jim Makichuk)

It's too rustic. (Ridicule; writing credit: Rémi Waterhouse ; Michel Fessler)

Her Rustic Hero (1915)

The Rustic Maiden (1912)

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Books

• Cucina Rustica: Simple, Irresistible Recipes in the Rustic Italian Style (reference)

• Louisiana Real and Rustic (reference)

• Rustic Italian Cooking (De Gustibus Presents the Great Cooks' Cookbooks) (reference)

• Rustic Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide (reference)

• The Art of Rustic Furniture (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• How to Make Rustic Garden Furniture (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rustic Chivalry (reference)

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High Tech

• Handspring Chestnut Rustic Leather Case (reference)

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A rustic Delaware Bay fishing village. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Rustic appearing Northwest Seafoods Company Pier. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A rustic crab dock at Mills Marina. Credit: Fisheries.

Native child on a rustic path. Credit: Small World.

Oil painting of a pair of surf scoters in flight by Wilhelm Goebel, 30677 E. Rustic Drive, Salisbury, MD 21804. The painting depicts New Jersey's southern shoreline featuring the Barnegat lighthouse in the background. Wil, a nationally known wildlife artist, received a degree in biology from Ithaca College, NY, and makes a lifetime study of bird anatomy. He began entering the Federal Duck Stamp competition at the age of 18 and after 17 years of submitting artwork, finally won the big prize. Wil designed the 1994 New Jersey Duck Stamp and additional fishing stamps for New Jersey, Delaware and Illinois. He has been selected to design the 1996 New Jersey Duck Stamp, the 1996 North Dakota Duck Stamp and the 1996 Alaska Duck Stamp. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

Exterior view. Photograph by Robert W. Kerrigan, March 1937. (Reproduction Number: HABS NEV,15-GOLD,1-1) This weathered firehouse once served the now-abandoned town of Gold Hill, the frontier mining community associated with the discovery of the Comstock Lode of silver ore in 1859. Gold Hill and neighboring Virginia City profited greatly from the rich lode through the 1860s and 1870s until the mines gave out around 1880. The Liberty Fire House is typical of the early wooden fire houses that protected many Western mining towns. It featured a false parapet front, a simple belfry, and rustic siding. It collapsed not long after this 1937 photo was taken. The belfry alone was retained as a monument. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rustic trail recently cut through forest past scattered houses to U.S. Capitol (?) building. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rustic cottages at Harbor Beach. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Rustic bridge, Lake Mohonk House, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

A rustic bridge and picnic table in a secluded clearing. A part of the Resettlement Administration's recreational area. Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But little Pearl was not clad in rustic weeds

The old man spoke with a rustic volubility in which there was nothing disquieting

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Business

Rustic tiles and Saturnia stone look like marble but are only a fraction of the cost, and maintenance is easier. (references)

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Expressions using "rustic": a rustic spot ♦ rustic moth ♦ rustic shoe ♦ rustic ware ♦ rustic work. Additional references.

Beginning with "rustic": rustic-bridge, rustic-effect, rustic-looking, rustic-sounding.

Ending with "rustic": ethnic-meets-rustic.

Albanian

i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), fshatarak (countrified, rural), fshatar (cottager, country, countryman, hayseed, peasant, rural, villager). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فلاحي (countrified), ‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏مصنوع من أغصان لم ينزع لحاؤها عنها, ‏غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly, wild), ‏سازج (drip), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, sand, scabrous, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar), ‏ريفي (boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, countrified, countryman, pastoral, provincial, rural), ‏شخص ريفي, ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion). (various references)

Bulgarian 

селски (buckwheat, bucolic, country, peasant, rural, village), селянин (churl, cottager, cotter, countryman, hind, peasant, villager), грубо изработен, непринуден (affable, artless, childlike, easy, familiar, free, go-as-you-please, informal, simple, spontaneous, unconstrained, unlabored, unlaboured, unpretending, unpretentious, unstarched, unstrained, unstudied, unstuffy), недодялан (coarse, countrified, gawky, heavy, inurbane, loutish, rough-hewn, rugged, unaccomplished, uncouth, unfinished, unlicked, unrefined, wild and woolly, zizzi), прост (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, easy, elemental, elementary, funky, grave, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, simple, sleazy, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, unpretentious, vulgar), провинциален (countrified, country, doric, provincial, rural). (various references)

Chinese 

鄙 (base, low, mean), 鄉村 (village), 猥 (canthus, humble, plentiful), 窶 (poor), 土气, 僻 (low, secluded), 怯 (afraid), 傖 (low fellow, rough, rude), 俚 (eminent, handsome, talented), 寠 (poor). (various references)

Czech

venkovský (country, provincial, rural), sedlák (peasant), prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, frugal, homely, naked, plain, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unworldly, vulgar), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar). (various references)

Danish

pilevaerling (rustic bunting), hvidaksugle (common rustic moth, wheat spotted noctuid), froegraesugle (flounced rustic moth), aksugle (rustic shoulder knot moth, wheat cut worm). (various references)

Dutch

halmuil (common rustic moth, wheat spotted noctuid), halmrupsvlinder (common rustic moth, wheat spotted noctuid), halmrups (common rustic moth, wheat spotted noctuid), bosgors (rustic bunting), Apamea sordens (rustic shoulder knot moth, wheat cut worm), aardappelstengelboorder (potato stem borer, rosy rustic moth). (various references)

Farsi 

مسخره (Clown, Dult, Fool, Hobbyhorse, Irony, Jeer, Mockery, Mower, Sikt, Spoof, Witticism, Zany), مربوطبه دهکده , روستاءی (Boor, Bucolic, Clodhopper, Hobnail, Kern, Peasant, Rural, Ruralist, Russet, Russeting, Villager, Yokel), دهاتی (Backwoodsman, Boor, Boorish, Clodhopper, Hobnail, Kern, Peasant, Villager, Yokel). (various references)

Finnish

rahvaanomainen (peasant, vulgar), talonpoikainen (country, peasant), maanmoukka (country bumpkin), maalaismainen (doughy, pasty), maalainen (country, peasant, provincial). (various references)

French

rustique (rural), rustaud, villageois (rural), paysan, campagnard. (various references)

German

ländlich (bucolic, countrified, country, folk, pastoral, rural, rustically), bäuerlich (peasant, rural). (various references)

Greek 

χωρικόσ (churl, peasant, regional, territorial, villager), χωριάτικοσ (country), χωριάτικο στυλ, χωριάτησ (boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, countryman, Hick, rube, villager, yokel), χοντροκαμωμένοσ, αγροτικόσ (agrarian, agricultural, countrified, rural), αγροίκοσ (boorish, bounder, churl, clownish, curmudgeon, lout, roughneck, rube, rude, scullion, yokel). (various references)

Hebrew 

קרתני (boorish, parochial, provincial), כפרי (bucolic, countrified, rural). (various references)

Hungarian

parasztos (churlish), falusias (bucolic, countrified, upcountry). (various references)

Italian

rustico (cabin, carcass, countrified, country, rough, rustication), rurale (rural), villereccio (rural), semplice (artless, easy, greenly, homely, ingenuous, mere, modest, modeste, naive, ordinary, plain, simple, simpleminded, simply, single, straightforward, unaffected, unit), grezzo (coarse, crude, raw, rough, rude, ruffianly, unwrought), campestre (country-, cross-country, rural), cafone (boor, peasant, raffish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

粗野 (rough, rude, vulgar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざいごうしゃ (countryman), そや (rough, rude, vulgar), ひっぷ (coarse man, coarse woman, country woman, man), ぶこつもの (boor), ぶこつ (boorish, brusque, clumsy, uncouth, unrefined), ばんてき (barbarous, savage), でんぷやじん (boor, hick), つちくさい (smelling of earth), いなかふう (country-style), り (2.44 miles, advantage, an official, benefit, clever, diarrhea, diarrhoea, ill-mannered, interest, profit, reason, ri). (various references)

Korean 

시골풍. (various references)

Manx

fer cheerey (son of the soil), bonkan (buffoon, bumpkin, clown, crackpot, mug). (various references)

Pig Latin

usticray.(various references)

Portuguese

rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), recruta (conscript, dogface, draftee, recruit, rookie, yard-bird), rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubber, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel), sem polimento, pessoa da aldeia, labrego (chaw-bacon, hobnail, lubber, tike, tyke, yokel), indivíduo rústico, inculto (barbaric, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, devastated, fallow, larrikin, low-brow, low-lived, rough, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unenlightened, unformed, uninformed, unlaboured, unlearned, unpolished, unposted, unreclaimed, unschooled, untutored, waste, wild), camponês (boor, chuff, cottager, countryman, farmer, landsman, peasant, ryot, yokel), campestre (campestral, rural). (various references)

Romanian

rustic (agrestic, countrified, country, home-bred, rural, russet), rural (agrestic, country, rural), sãtean (countryman, villager), provincial (backwoodsman, countrified, country, parochial, provincial), mitocan (boor, cad, clown, mobbish), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), câmpenesc (country, field, pastoral, rural), câmpean (countryman), ţãran (boor, churl, clown, cottager, countryman, moujik, peasant), ţãrãnesc (countrified, country-like, countryman's, peasant-like, rural). (various references)

Russian 

грубо сработанный, простой (a.b.c., abc, artless, austere, broken time, chaste, downtime, down-time, home-bred, homely, idle time, inelaborate, inornate, mere, native, onefold, one-fold, ordinary, outage, primitive, pure, run-of-the-mill, shirt-sleeve, simple, straightforward, unceremonious, unpretentious, unsophisticated), деревенский (bucolic, countrified, country, hillbilly, russet, village). (various references)

Scottish

tuathanach (farmer, peasant, rancher). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rustičan, seoski (country, rural), seljački (countrified, peasant). (various references)

Spanish

rústico (backwoods, churlish, clownish, countrified, Hick, rural, sylvan, yokel). (various references)

Swedish

lantlig (Hick, predial, provincial, rural), lantbo. (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวกับชีวิตชนบท, เรียบง่าย (homely, naked), ชาวชนบท (hind), ทำจากไม้หยาบไม่ประณีต, มีผิวหยาบ. (various references)

Turkish

rustik, yontulmamış tip (boor, ruffian), yontulmamış (barbarous, bearish, brutal, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, coarse grained, craggy, hobnailed, rough-hewn, rugged, shaggy, uncut), taşralı (backwoodsman, countryman, Hick, provincial, upcountry), sade (artless, austere, bald, bare, chaste, frugal, frugally, homely, homespun, just, mere, merely, only, plain, pure, severe, simple, simplificative, sober, stark, unadorned, unmixed, unsophisticated), kaba kimse (boor, mucker), kaba biçimli, kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), köylü (corydon, countrified, country folk, countryman, grass roots, hayseed, Hick, Kern, kerne, peasant, ploughman, plowman, provincial, rube, villager, yokel), köy (country, kampong, rural, settlement, village), kırsal (agrarian, arcadian, countrified, country, pastoral, rural), hoyrat (boorish, flat-footed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, loutish, rough, uncouth, vulgar), hödük (boor, boorish, bumpkin, churl, clodhopper, clown, clumsy, country bumpkin, dry stick, dull stick, hayseed, Hick, lubber, oaf, roughneck, rube, ruffian, stick, yob, yokel), gösterişsiz (chaste, conservative, fluffy, homely, homespun, modest, plain, poor looking, simple, sober, undemanding, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious). (various references)

Ukrainian

сільський (arcadian, countrified, country, predial, rural, russet, silvan, sylvan), селюк (boor, bush-whacker, chuff, churl, clown, gawky, red-neck, yahoo, yokel), селянин (cottager, countryman, peasant, ploughman, plowman, villager, yeoman), незіпсований (incorrupt), простакуватий (naпve). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người quê mùa (hawbuck, kern, kerne, yokel), mộc mạc (chaste, plainly, simple). (various references)

boukolikos. (various references)

agrestes, agrestia, agrestibus, agrestis, Apamea secalis, Apamea sordens, Apamea testacea, Emberiza rustica, Gortyna micacea, Hadena secalis, Hydraecia micacea, Hydroecia micacea, Luperina testacea, Mesapamea secalis, nativus, Palluperina testacea, Parastichtis didyma, Parastichtis secalis, rustico, rusticus. (various references)

heiden. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rustic": rustical, rustically, rusticals, rusticate, rusticated, rusticates, rusticating, rustication, rustications, rusticator, rusticators, rusticities, rusticity, rusticly, rustics. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rustic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: austic, Austick, Hustwick, kruskic, rautsi, retic, rostam, rosti, rotic, roustic, Rushtah, ruski, Ruskis, Rusli, russkii, rusten, rustica, Rustici, rustick, Rusticum, Rustik, rustiq, Rustom, Rustow, Rustu, ruttish, Ruzici, Ruzicka, truistic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: citrus, rictus.

-1 letter: crust, curst, cutis, ictus.

-2 letters: cist, cris, crus, curs, curt, cuts, rust, ruts, scut, stir, suit, tics, tuis, uric.

-3 letters: cis, cur, cut, its, rut, sic, sir, sit, sri, tic, tis, tui, uts.

-4 letters: is, it, si, ti, us, ut.

+1 letter: citrous, citrusy, curites, icterus, incrust, rustics.

+2 letters: cerusite, circuits, citreous, citruses, critturs, crudites, crustier, crustily, crusting, culprits, cuprites, curdiest, curliest, curtails, curtains, curtsied, curtsies, curviest, cutesier, eucrites, haircuts, incrusts, instruct, juristic, outcries, pictures, piecrust, puristic, quartics, recruits, rictuses, ructions, ructious, rustical, rusticly, scrutiny, security, suricate, truistic, utricles.

+3 letters: actuaries, atrocious, casuistry, cauteries, ceintures, centuries, cerusites, cerussite, cinctures, costumier, countries, courtiers, courtship, courtside, cretinous, critiques, croupiest, cruddiest, crudities, cruelties, crumbiest, crummiest, crustiest, cucurbits, cultivars, curatives, curiosity, curtesies, curtsying, cutleries, diuretics, drumstick, enuretics, fractious, fruticose, heuristic, hubristic, icteruses, incrusted, inductors, instructs, intercuts, justiciar, liturgics, misstruck, neuritics, neurotics, obscurity, ocularist, outprices, outtricks, piecrusts, raucities, reinducts, reticules, rusticals, rusticate, rusticity, scorbutic, scripture, scurfiest, scurviest, smutchier, spruciest, stricture, subarctic, subscript, subtropic, suctorial, suctorian, supercity, suricates, tinctures, toreutics, touristic, tracksuit, tricuspid, triticums, trochilus, truancies, truckings, turmerics, urticants, urticates, utriculus, virtuosic.