as in peasant
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
a rustic who was awed by the prices that city dwellers had to pay
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also rustical
1
as in wooden
lacking social grace and assurance
rustic yokels whose first impulse was to smirk gawkily at anyone not of their own kind
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as in rural
of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people
a rustic area that has a refreshing lack of billboards and shopping malls
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Recent Examples of rustic
Juliet Izon, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
The Dresden picture features three satyrs—grinning rustics, horned and horny, who hope to make out with Diana’s accompanying huntswomen.
—Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 26 Dec. 2023
Emily St. Martin, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Updated with reclaimed barn wood to give the interior a warmer, more rustic feel, Belmont is part taphouse, part restaurant — and all welcoming.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The Swag, Waynesville, North Carolina The decor here is pitch-perfect rustic: cozy without being twee.
—Juliet Izon, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
The Dresden picture features three satyrs—grinning rustics, horned and horny, who hope to make out with Diana’s accompanying huntswomen.
—Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 26 Dec. 2023
Adjective
Southern California News Group contributor Cathy Thomas has a recipe for Colcannon, a rustic dish of mashed potatoes moistened with milk and butter and mixed with cabbage and onions.
—Emily St. Martin, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Updated with reclaimed barn wood to give the interior a warmer, more rustic feel, Belmont is part taphouse, part restaurant — and all welcoming.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rustic
Noun
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This cotton peasant blouse may be simple, but it’s also guaranteed to become one of the most versatile pieces in your closet.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Mar. 2025
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By March 1525, the peasant armies had grown to encompass tens of thousands of peasants from Alsace to Austria and from Switzerland to Saxony.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The entertaining aisle offers pretty paper napkins, wooden platters and bowls, melamine trays, and tablecloths.—
Brennan Long,
Southern Living,
26 Mar. 2025
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Bronze coins related to Ptolemies and of Antiochus IV, weapons, wooden tools and fabrics were found too.—
Ashley J. DiMella Fox News,
FOXNews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) awards money to low-income and rural school districts.—
Jonaki Mehta,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2025
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The pastor lived on a farm in rural Florida that kept dogs outside and had a group of goats, according to the report, but the man wasn’t involved in their care.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Unlike clumsier species that struggle with obstacles, the black mamba leverages every surface with surgical precision, effectively turning the landscape into a series of launchpads.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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There’s also a touching subplot for the clumsy, muted Dopey (Andrew Barth Feldman), who’s regularly the butt of the other dwarfs’ jokes.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Sorrentino may also be exorcising some conflicting feelings about his birthplace, which is portrayed as a vulgar, crude place populated by crooks and hicks and photographed like its paradise.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.—
D. T. Max,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Going to the Ron Burgundy–Ricky Bobby idiot well one time too many, Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a lazy, cynical longtime congressman running against a local bumpkin (Galifianakis).—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Carter, perhaps the most decent man to ever occupy the Oval Office, was long written off as a country bumpkin, one who perhaps unsurprisingly left office as a one-term anomaly.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Parsons called him a jealous clown, in so many words.—
Troy Renck,
The Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2025
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Who was the biggest Death of a Unicorn class clown?—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Rustic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rustic. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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