English language

How to pronounce rustic in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated
Derivation rusticity


rustic farmers.
Type Words
Synonyms agrestic
Derivation rusticity


rustic stone walls.
Type Words
Synonyms countrified, countryfied
Derivation rusticity


rustic awkwardness.
Type Words
Type of common person, commoner, common man
Has types chawbacon, coon, countryman, countrywoman, cracker, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, peasant, provincial, redneck, rube, ruralist, woodman, woodsman, yahoo, yokel, bucolic, bumpkin, bushwhacker
Derivation rusticate

Examples of rustic

rustic
A rustic lantern stuffed with white and pale green gourds graced my front porch.
From the kansas.com
Instead that honour fell to Paul Scholes for a typical piece of rustic tackling.
From the independent.co.uk
The eatery will offer sweet and savory rustic pies and crepes known as galettes.
From the courier-journal.com
It's like an outback bar in a tin shed with rustic metal and wooden furnishings.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Using her mother's recipes for inspiration, she has a rustic yet creative style.
From the sfgate.com
It's a bit more rustic sounding and the psychedelic influences are really clear.
From the guardian.co.uk
The rustic lodge boasts its own section of unreconstructed wall on the property.
From the thenewstribune.com
It retains the natural fiber's rustic feel but is tailored for elegant settings.
From the chron.com
Rustic lodge is near lakes, national forests and two protected wilderness areas.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • An unsophisticated country person
  • Countrified: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"
  • Bumpkinly: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
  • Agrestic: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"
  • (rusticism) ruralism: a rural idiom or expression
  • (rusticity) the quality of being rustic or gauche
  • The Rustic (Cupha erymanthis) is a species of brush-footed butterfly found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.
  • The Rustic (Hoplodrina blanda) is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found in Europe.
  • A person from a rural area; country-styled or pastoral; rural; unfinished or roughly finished work; crude, rough