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Another word for rustic

rustic Synonyms

rustic

modif.

Rural
agricultural, pastoral, agrarian; see rural.
Boorish
countrified, provincial, unsophisticated, rude, uncouth, unpolished, inelegant, awkward, coarse, rough, dull, loutish, lubberly, clownish, ungainly, lumpish, ignorant, uneducated.
Antonyms cultured*, refined, sophisticated.
Suggesting the idyllic qualities of rural places or people
sylvan, verdant, unadorned, idyllic, bucolic, artless, simple, plain, honest, unsophisticated, pleasing, charming, picturesque, pastoral, natural, unaffected, sturdy; see also pleasant 2.
Antonyms complex*, urbane, sophisticated. See syn. study at rural.rural.

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Another word for rustic

adjective

Of or relating to the countryside:
arcadian, bucolic, campestral, country, pastoral, provincial, rural. (Informal) hick. See urban
Of a plain and unsophisticated nature:
artless, homely, homespun, natural, unadorned, unpolished. See plain

noun

A clumsy, unsophisticated person:

bumpkin, clodhopper, yokel. See ability

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Today, we leave this rustic life and move to the city.
Never would she have guessed such a lavish home existed in these rustic mountains.
As a rustic dialect the language lasted on in North Africa till the 5th century A.D.
For example, when one considers how often milk is used in the tending and propitiation of venerated snakes, it is noteworthy that in Roman cult the truly rustic deities are offered milk (Fowler), and it is no less singular that many of the old goddesses of Greece have serpent attributes (Harrison).'
He is indeed the Victorian Theocritus; and, as English country life is slowly swept away before the advance of the railway and the telegraph, he will be more and more read for his warm-hearted and fragrant record of rustic love and piety.

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