rustic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.
Meanings
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Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
She had a rustic, woodland air.
1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven:To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
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Unfinished or roughly finished.
rustic manners
- Crude, rough.
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Simple; artless; unaffected.
the manners not too polite nor too rustic
1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rusticke | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most rustic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| rustick | alternative | lexicographic | |
| rustique | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more rustic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
rosy rustic · rusticise · unrustic · rusticism · rusticness · rustic ware · rustic bunting · rustically · rusticization · rustic moth · semirustic · rusticize · rustic-work · nonrustic · rusticly · rusticity
Translations (47)
ru се́льский (country-styled) · fi maalaismainen (country-styled) · gl rústico (country-styled) · mi kōkau (unfinished, roughly finished) · ca rústic (country-styled) · fi talonpoikainen (country-styled) · sco hame-made (unfinished, roughly finished) · mk се́лски (country-styled) · sv grov (unfinished, roughly finished) · cy gwledig (country-styled) · bg груб (unfinished, roughly finished) · it agreste (country-styled) · fi karkeatekoinen (unfinished, roughly finished) · mi kōkau (crude, rough) · la rusticus (country-styled) · la rūrālis (country-styled) · ca agrest (crude, rough) · ar رَيْفِيّ (country-styled) · la rusticus (crude, rough) · es rústico (crude, rough) · nl landelijk (country-styled) · cy gwladaidd (country-styled) · bg провинциален (country-styled) · ca rústic (crude, rough) · it rustico (country-styled) · mk груб (unfinished, roughly finished) · bg селски (country-styled) · fi karkea (unfinished, roughly finished) · mi tāera taiwhenua (country-styled) · fi karkea (crude, rough) · el αγροίκος (country-styled) · ar قَرَوِيّ (country-styled) · fi rustiikkinen (country-styled) · sv lantlig (country-styled) · de rustikal (country-styled) · fi maaseutumainen (country-styled) · pl wiejski (country-styled) · pl rustykalny (country-styled) · bg недодялан (unfinished, roughly finished) · mk груб (crude, rough) · mi pūhungahunga (unfinished, roughly finished) · ro rustic (country-styled) · es rústico (country-styled) · fa روستایی (country-styled) · grc ἄγροικος (country-styled) · pt rústico (country-styled) · fi kömpelö (unfinished, roughly finished)