Word Meanings - AGRESTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

Related words: (words related to AGRESTIC)

• RURALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• AGRESTICAL
  Agrestic.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• RURALIZE
  To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• RURAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak. 2. Of
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• BEHAVIOR
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RUSTICATED
  resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• RUSTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth. 2. Rude; awkward; rough;
• OPPOSITION
  The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol
• UNPOLISH
  To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
• EQUICRURAL
  Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
• BICRURAL
  Having two legs. Hooker.
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.