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rustique

rustique is the archaic form of rustic.

Meaning of rustic

Adjective

rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)

  1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
    • rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
  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

See all 8 meanings of rustic

Forms of rustique

comparativemore rustique
superlativemost rustique

Questions about rustique

What is rustique the archaic form of?
Rustique is the archaic form of rustic.

Words near rustique in the dictionary

  1. rusting off
  2. rusting out
  3. rusting through
  4. rustings
  5. Rustins
  6. rustique
  7. rustle
  8. rustle someone's jim-jams
  9. rustle someone's jimmies
  10. rustle time
  11. rustle up

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