rustic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an unsophisticated country person
  2. adjective satellite characteristic of rural life
    countrified; countryfied.
    • countrified clothes
    • rustic awkwardness
  3. adjective satellite awkwardly simple and provincial
    unsophisticated; bumpkinly; hick.
    • bumpkinly country boys
    • rustic farmers
    • a hick town
    • the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
  4. adjective satellite characteristic of the fields or country
    agrestic.
    • agrestic simplicity
    • rustic stone walls

WordNet

Rus"tic adjective
Etymology
L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country: cf. F. rustique. See Rural.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton.
    And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray.
    She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth.
  2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." Spenser.
  3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
  4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. Pope. Syn. -- Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; artless; honest. See Rural.
Rus"tic noun
Definitions
  1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
    Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away. Pope.
  2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. Poetic

Webster 1913