Associations to the word «Rustic»

Wiktionary

RUSTIC, adjective. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
RUSTIC, adjective. Unfinished or roughly finished.
RUSTIC, adjective. Crude, rough.
RUSTIC, adjective. Simple; artless; unaffected.
RUSTIC, noun. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
RUSTIC BUNTING, noun. Emberiza rustica, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.

Dictionary definition

RUSTIC, noun. An unsophisticated country person.
RUSTIC, adjective. Characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness".
RUSTIC, adjective. Awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists".
RUSTIC, adjective. Characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats