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rus⋅tic

[ruhs-tik]
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
2. simple, artless, or unsophisticated.
3. uncouth, rude, or boorish.
4. made of roughly dressed limbs or roots of trees, as garden seats.
5. (of stonework) having the surfaces rough or irregular and the joints sunken or beveled.
–noun
6. a country person.
7. an unsophisticated country person.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L rūsticus, equiv. to rūs the country (see rural ) + -ticus adj. suffix


rus⋅ti⋅cal, adjective
rus⋅ti⋅cal⋅ly, rus⋅tic⋅ly, adverb
rus⋅ti⋅cal⋅ness, rus⋅tic⋅ness, noun


1. See rural.


1. urban.
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