Sekirov Dictionary

rustic

/ˈɹʌstɪk/

adjective 4
noun 4
forms 3

adjective4

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Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
- late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
•
Unfinished or roughly finished.
- rustic manners
Crude, rough.
Simple; artless; unaffected.

noun4

•
A rural person.
- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement. — 1905
•
An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics. — 1927
Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
A noctuoid moth.

forms

rustics · more rustic · most rustic

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