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rustic

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1. rustic - Noun

2. rustic - Adjective

3. rustic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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

Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers. Flora Thompson

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. Orson Scott Card

Rustic herald of the spring. Mark Akenside

A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job. Giordano Bruno

Ambition makes people scorn rustic living. English Proverb

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