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
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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
Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2025
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On the cusp of adulthood, three teenagers converge on Norway’s rustic Pasvik Folk High School for a unique gap year experience.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The Swag, Waynesville, North Carolina The decor here is pitch-perfect rustic: cozy without being twee.
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The Tuscan terracotta floors set a rustic tone for the stylish space, so do the wooden beam ceilings.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for rustic
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In his lecture at the Traditions festival, Dugin moved from peasants to a survey of modern Russian intellectual history.—
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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.—
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The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture.—
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The Romans established Londinium just north of the river’s marshy valley after invading Britain in 43 C.E. Colossal wooden quays stood on the ancient settlement’s riverbank.—
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The group created a canvassing operation of more than 500 employees who relentlessly knocked on doors in rural areas of the state and left-leaning Madison and Milwaukee.—
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Many rural areas simply didn't have the technological resources.—
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This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.—
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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.—
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Raw also advertised Bayley challenging Lyra Valkyria for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship, Penta vs. Dominik Mysterio and the world’s most clumsy GM Adam Pearce making his next fumble of the worst storyline going this WrestleMania season between Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair and Iyo Sky.—
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This is why the Trump administration’s DOGE exercise — while clumsy at times — is such an important endeavor despite Democratic efforts to discredit it.—
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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.—
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In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.—
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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).—
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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.—
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Caro Stowell of Thomasville was dressed up like a clown.—
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The final moments of the trailer revealed a terrifying figure hiding deep in the woods, one that looked overwhelmingly like a female clown.—
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“Rustic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rustic. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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