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[ UK /ɹˈʌstɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈɹəstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. awkwardly simple and provincial
    bumpkinly country boys
    rustic farmers
    the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
    a hick town
  2. characteristic of rural life
    countrified clothes
    rustic awkwardness
  3. characteristic of the fields or country
    agrestic simplicity
    rustic stone walls
NOUN
  1. an unsophisticated country person

How To Use rustic In A Sentence

  • Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
  • MASANGO PETROS M NOTTINGHAM RD FARM 20061016 confessed by outline shoot Lucky Mlangeni o.b.o. rustic MASSETT ANDRE M 2OO80628 ARTIST CULLINAN SMALLHOLDING Archive 2009-12-01
  • Brick with blurred colors or flecks of color in earthy tones of red, brown, black and buff appear completely at home in a rustic setting.
  • Northern migratory species winter in the savanna, such as spotted sandpiper Actitis macularia, barn swallow Hirundo rustica and blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
  • Simple, rustic meals, focusing more on quality ingredients, such as first-rate olive oil.
  • Not for them your rustic kitchens and winsome acoustic soundtracks. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
  • It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • The rebeck, to whose loud and harsh strains the medieval rustic had danced, [Footnote: The rebeck probably had been borrowed from the Mohammedans.] by the addition of a fourth string and A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
  • The fireplace really suited the rustic cabin setting.
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