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
Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 30 Jan. 2025
Outdoor spaces, including horse pastures and walking trails, add a rustic charm that blends seamlessly with the distillery’s modern facilities.
—Ian and Tonya Fitzpatrick, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 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
The firm, which boasts a team of 30 designers, artists, and seamstresses, offers full-service interior design, working on projects of all types and styles, from sprawling Dallas mansions to rustic lake retreats.
—Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 30 Jan. 2025
Outdoor spaces, including horse pastures and walking trails, add a rustic charm that blends seamlessly with the distillery’s modern facilities.
—Ian and Tonya Fitzpatrick, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rustic
Noun
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The vast majority were men—rural peasants from Guangdong Province, situated on the southeast coast of China, near Hong Kong.—
Jane Hu,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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The peewee population interacted with each other in various settings and included bocce bowlers, bare-bottomed peasants, baguette bakers, blind men, the mustachioed mayor, female fishmongers, dunce hat-wearing schoolboys, snail saleswomen, and gobs more characters.—
gqlshare,
Orange County Register,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Menu items include sea urchin bruschettas, fresh clams, and oodles of oysters, all served on communal wooden tables overlooking the vineyards.—
Travel + Leisure Staff,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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The houses resembled mobile homes or shipping containers and had a basic kitchen, a wooden dining table with a bench, and a chair.—
Araceli Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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What: The exhibition presents 26 large-scale photographs focusing on rural subjects.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
1 Feb. 2025
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Crooked Creek fire On Thursday, firefighters contained another wildfire in McDowell County, the Crooked Creek fire that previously forced families to evacuate from their rural Western North Carolina homes.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Feb. 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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Amazon’s best-selling soup bowls are made with triple-layered glass that even the clumsiest folks may find hard to break.—
Ashley Zlatopolsky,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2025
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Okay too many clumsy Star Wars references there, but one thing the report also correctly notes is that this would be a rare development where Star Wars recruits a top A-list actor to star in a film.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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In the special, taped at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, Kober brings audiences together with stories about dealing with hometown hicks, unforgiving fruit flies and California candy cartels.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
25 June 2024
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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
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Emily in Paris On Location: Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris Rediscover Paris as Chicago bumpkin Emily (played by Lily Collins) moves there for a job and takes you to places like Galeries Lafayette, Galerie-Musee Baccarat and Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris.—
Forbes Travel Guide,
Forbes,
14 Sep. 2024
Noun
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The singer had a slew of background dancers with clown makeup and country outfits.—
Nicole Fell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025
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The back-up dancers were a colorful mix of rodeo clowns, the performance ending with a passionate guitar display and an expression of confident satisfaction from Roan.—
Evan Nicole Brown,
TIME,
3 Feb. 2025
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