Rustic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrÊŒstɪk/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒstɪk

Alternative forms

• obsolete rustick, rusticke, rustique

Origin

From Latin rūsticus.

Full definition of rustic

Adjective

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)She had a rustic, woodland air.
2. Unfinished or roughly finished.
   rustic manners
3. Crude, rough.
   rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
4. Simple; artless; unaffected.
• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 8, 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.

Derived terms

• rustic moth
• rustic work

Noun

1. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
• 1906 — Arthur Conan Doyle, , Ch IXThe 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.
• 1927-29 — Mahatma Gandhi, , Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev DesaiThus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.

Anagrams

• citrus
• Curtis
• rictus