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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rustic \Rus"tic\, adjective [L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country: cf. F. rustique. See {Rural}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. ''Rustic lays.'' --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.
{Rustic moth} (Zo["o]l.), any moth belonging to {Agrotis} and allied genera. Their larv[ae] are called cutworms. See {Cutworm}.
{Rustic work}. (a) (Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous. (b) (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.
Syn: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See {Rural}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rustic \Rus"tic\, noun
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rustic
adjective
1: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness" [syn: {countrified}, {countryfied}]
2: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: {bumpkinly}, {hick}, {unsophisticated}]
3: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian}, {bucolic}, {pastoral}]
4: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: {agrestic}]
noun: an unsophisticated country person
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "rustic": Arcadian, Bauer, Spartan, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, apple knocker, artless, ascetic, austere, awkward, backwoods, backwoodsman, bald, bare, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, campestral, candid, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, common, commonplace, countrified, country, country bumpkin, country cousin, countryman, countrywoman, crofter, cropper, crude, cultivator, direct, dirt farmer, dry, dry farmer, dull, exurbanite, farm, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, frank, gawky, gentleman farmer, granger, greenhorn, grower, guileless, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, homely, homespun, husbandman, ingenuous, jay, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lean, looby, lout, loutish, lowland, lumpen, matter-of-fact, mossback, mountaineer, muzhik, naive, natural, neat, oaf, oafish, open, outland, pastoral, peasant, peasant holder, picker, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, planter, plodding, plowboy, plowman, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provincial, pure, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, redneck, ridge runner, rough, rube, rural, severe, sharecropper, simple, simple-speaking, sober, sower, spare, stark, straightforward, suburbanite, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, unadorned, unaffected, uncomplicated, uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, unimaginative, unmannerly, unpoetical, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, unvarnished, upland, woodsy, yap, yeoman, yokel
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