adj
Meaning 1
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
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adj
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
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adj
Unfinished or roughly finished.
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adj
Crude, rough.
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adj
Simple; artless; unaffected.
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noun
A rural person.
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noun
An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
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Usage: derogatory
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Synonyms: bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, clodhopper, dubbo, joskin, hayseed, hick, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, lob, promdi, provincial, rube, rustic, woolly back, yokel
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noun
A noctuoid moth.
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Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
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Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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adjective satellite
awkwardly simple and provincial
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated
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adjective satellite
characteristic of the fields or country
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Synonyms: agrestic
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adjective satellite
characteristic of rural life
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Synonyms: countrified, countryfied
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noun
an unsophisticated country person
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Broader terms: commoner, common man, common person
Narrower terms: coon, countryman, ruralist, countrywoman, hillbilly, bushwhacker, peasant, provincial, bucolic, redneck, cracker, woodsman, woodman, yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon
History
From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.
Across languages
68 source translations are retained for this English entry.