EGAVE

rustic

About 1.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
    rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
  2. adjective Unfinished or roughly finished.
    rustic manners
  3. adjective Crude, rough.
  4. adjective Simple; artless; unaffected.
  5. noun A rural person.
  6. noun An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
  7. noun A noctuoid moth.
  8. noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Similar words

agrestic rural bucolic countrified hick bumpkinly provincial arcadian pastoral unsophisticated

Often followed by

and life bridge simplicity seat in bench or style

Word family

rustical rustically rusticities rusticity rustics

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