rustic

²rustic

noun

Definition of RUSTIC

1

: an inhabitant of a rural area

2

a : an awkward coarse person b : an unsophisticated rural person

Examples of RUSTIC

1. <a rustic who was awed by the prices that city dwellers had to pay>

First Known Use of RUSTIC

circa 1550

Related to RUSTIC

Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, provincial, rube, hick, yokel

Antonyms: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

Related Words: boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf; greenhorn, tenderfoot; peasant, peon; backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms: slicker, smoothy (or smoothie); metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

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