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rustic

/ˈɹʌstɪk/

rustic adjective: country-styled or pastoral; rural.

Adjective

rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)

  1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
    • rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
    • She had a rustic, woodland air.1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
  2. Unfinished or roughly finished.
    • rustic manners
  3. Crude, rough.
  4. Simple; artless; unaffected.
    • the manners not too polite nor too rustic1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
    • 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.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

Noun

rustic (plural rustics)

  1. A rural person.
    • 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.1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
    • 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.1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IX, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC
  2. (derogatory) 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.1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “The Stain of Indigo”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II)...
  3. A noctuoid moth.
  4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

rustic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

rustic in Hindi

rustic, rural, pastoral
ग्रामीण grāmīṇ
rustic, rural
भदेस bhades
rustic, rural, village-dwelling
गँवार gãvār

rustic in Tamil

குடியானவர், நாட்டுப்புறத்தார், பட்டிக்காடான

rustic in Urdu

جانگلو, قصباتی

rustic in Bengali

rustic, rural, pastoral
গ্রামীণ gramin
More languagesFewer languages
rustic in Telugu
అశ్లీలము aślīlamu, ఊర ūra
rustic in Malayalam
നാടൻ, ഗ്രാമീണ, ഗ്രാമീണം, അപരിഷ്കൃത
rustic in Kannada
ಹಳ್ಳಿಯ, ಗ್ರಾಮ್ಯ, ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ, ಹಳ್ಳಿಗಾಡಿನ
rustic in Sanskrit
ग्रामीण grāmīṇa, ग्राम्य grāmya
rustic in Arabic
رَيْفِيّ rayfiyy, قَرَوِيّ qarawiyy
rustic in Persian
روستایی rustâyi

Examples of rustic in a sentence

  • With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please...
  • To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:

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Synonyms of rustic

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Forms of rustic

Adjective
comparativemore rustic
superlativemost rustic
alternative formrustick
alternative formrusticke
alternative formrustique
Noun
pluralrustics

Origin of rustic

From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.

Words formed from rustic

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Words that rhyme with rustic

Questions about rustic

What does rustic mean?
Rustic means country-styled or pastoral; rural.
What is rustic in Hindi?
Rustic in Hindi is ग्रामीण (grāmīṇ), भदेस (bhades), गँवार (gãvār). See Rustic meaning in Hindi.
How do you use rustic in a sentence?
With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.
What part of speech is rustic?
Rustic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce rustic?
Rustic is pronounced /ˈɹʌstɪk/.

Words near rustic in the dictionary

  1. rustful
  2. rustfully
  3. rustgill
  4. rustgills
  5. Rusthall
  6. rustic
  7. rustic bunting
  8. rustic buntings
  9. rustic moth
  10. rustic moths
  11. rustic ware

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rustic (page history and authors); गँवार (Hindi) (page history and authors); rustic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rustic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গ্রামীণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); అశ్లీలము (Telugu) (page history and authors); rustic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); rustic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ग्रामीण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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