Synonyms of rubes

rubes

noun

plural of rube

as in hayseeds

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country

rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hayseeds
• hicks
• peasants
• yokels
• bumpkins
• clowns
• rustics
• provincials
• hayseed
• countrymen
• mountaineers
• cornballs
• clodhoppers
• churls
• boors
• clods
• greenhorns
• gawks
• peons
• louts
• oafs
• chawbacons
• tenderfoots
• peones
• backwoodsmen
• tenderfeet

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sophisticates
• cosmopolitans
• suburbanites
• slickers
• urbanites
• cosmopolites
• smoothies
• metropolitans