rube

rube

noun

Definition of RUBE

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country <rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time>

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

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

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

Antonyms cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate