Definition of Rustic

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Rustic

Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.

Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.

Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.

Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.

An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.

A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.

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Rustic Quotations

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
William Kingdon Clifford

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
Gustav Stickley

Rustic Translations

rustic in French is villageois
rustic in Italian is rurale, semplice, villereccio
rustic in Latin is rusticus
rustic in Swedish is lantlig, lantbo

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