rustic

rustic
adj
1. rural, farm, country, agrestic, agrarian, agricultural, agronomical, geoponic, georgic; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan, Arcadian.
2. plain, simple, modest, unpretentious, unpretending, unassuming, unaffected, normal, informal; unsophisticated, unpolished, unrefined, uncultured, uncultivated; naive, artless, guileless, ingenuous, candid, open, unsuspecting; coarse, rough, roughcast, rough-hewn, linsey-woolsey, inelegant, indelicate; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, country-bred, country-born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed; homespun, homebred, homey, homely, homelike, homish, down-home, (usu. of thought or philosophy) cracker-barrel, Inf. folksy.
3. uncouth, rude, graceless, lacking in the social graces, unmannerly, ill-mannered, ill-bred, low-bred; crude, vulgar, crass, raw, boorish, churlish; awkward, clumsy, inept, maladroit, heavy-handed, blundering, bungling, gawky, gawkish, ungainly, like a bull in a china shop; loutish, oafish, doltish, lumpish, lumpen, lubberly, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish.
n
4. peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman, hobnail; farmer, plowman, plowboy, chuff, gaffer, swain, kerne, son or tiller of the soil, (in Egypt) fellah, (in Russia) muszhik, (in Spanish America and Southwestern U.S.) peon, Archaic. hind; yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hawbuck, Dial. lumpkin, Often Disparaging. hillbilly, Disparaging. bogtrotter, Inf. chawbacon, Inf. cider squeezer, Sl. hick, Sl. wood-hick, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed, Sl. hoosier, Fr. Sl. truffe.

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