Word Meanings - RUSTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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;
Additional info about word: 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; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." Spenser. 3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress. 4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. Pope. Rustic moth , any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvæ are called cutworms. See Cutworm. -- Rustic work. Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous. (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged. Syn. -- Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; artless; honest. See Rural.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RUSTIC)
- Countryman
- Rustic
- clown
- boor
- compatriot
- swain
- yeoman
- bus
- bandman
- farmer
- agriculturist
- laborer
- peasant
- fellow-countryman
- fellow-subject
- fellowcitizen
- subject
- citizen
- inhabitant
- native
- Outlandish
- Strange
- queer
- grotesque
- foreign
- rustic
- barbarous
- rude
- Peasant
- hind
- villager
- Provincial
- Appendant
- annexed
- outlying
- rural
- countrified
- bucolic
- Rude
- Impertinent
- rough
- shapeless
- unfashioned
- artless
- unpolished
- uncouth
- inelegant
- coarse
- vulgar
- clownish
- raw
- unskilful
- untaught
- illiterate
- ignorant
- uncivil
- saucy
- impolite
- impudent
- insolent
- surly
- churlish
- brutal
- uncivilized
- savage
- violent
- tumultuous
- turbulent
- Impetuous
- boisterous
- harsh
- inclement
- severe
- Insulting
- barbaric
- archaic
Related words: (words related to RUSTIC)
- ROUGHING-IN
The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it. - BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - ANNEX
to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He - IMPUDENT
Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen; - ROUGHT
imp. of Reach. - ROUGHHEWN
1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon. - RURALITY
1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle. - PROVINCIALLY
In a provincial manner. - VILLAGERY
Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak. - ROUGHLEG
Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe, - ILLITERATE
Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n. - SUBJECTION
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government - INCLEMENT
1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement - ROUGHINGS
Rowen. - SUBJECTIST
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. - SUBJECTNESS
Quality of being subject. - FARMERESS
A woman who farms. - ROUGHSHOD
Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others. - CLOWNAGE
Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson. - INSULT
1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront; - ELIMINATIVE
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. - NOMINATIVELY
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative. - EMANATIVE
Issuing forth; effluent. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - REGNATIVE
Ruling; governing. - EQUICRURAL
Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne. - COLABORER
One who labors with another; an associate in labor.