rustic

rustic
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. rural, countrified, bucolic; artless, unsophisticated; unpolished, rude, backwoods. See unskillfulness. — n. peasant, farmer, bumpkin, boor. See populace, agriculture.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Rural]
Syn. agricultural, pastoral, agrarian; see rural .
2. [Boorish]
Syn. countrified, provincial, unsophisticated, rude, uncouth, unpolished, inelegant, awkward, coarse, rough, dull, loutish, lubberly, clownish, ungainly, lumpish, ignorant, uneducated.
Ant. cultured*, refined, sophisticated.
3. [Suggesting the idyllic qualities of rural places or people]
Syn. sylvan, verdant, unadorned, idyllic, bucolic, artless, simple, plain, honest, unsophisticated, pleasing, charming, picturesque, pastoral, natural, unaffected, sturdy; see also pleasant 2 .
Ant. complex*, urbane, sophisticated.
See Synonym Study at rural .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
country person, country cousin, farmer, *hick, yokel, bumpkin, hillbilly, *hayseed.
II
(VOCABULARY WORD) a.
[RUS tik]
rural, simple, plain.
They lived a rustic lifestyle.
SYN.: rural, backwoods, country, agrarian, pastoral, bucolic, Arcadian, simple, plain, unrefined, unsophisticated, natural.
ANT.: urban, sophisticated, citified
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I adjective 1. Of or relating to the countryside: arcadian, bucolic, campestral, country, pastoral, provincial, rural. Informal: hick. See URBAN. 2. Of a plain and unsophisticated nature: artless, homely, homespun, natural, unadorned, unpolished. See PLAIN. II noun A clumsy, unsophisticated person: bumpkin, clodhopper, yokel. See ABILITY.

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