What does rustic mean?

rustic means "characteristic of rural life". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rustic?

rustic has 2 syllables: rus-tic. The stress falls on "rus". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌstɪk/.

What is another word for rustic?

Close synonyms include countrified, countryfied, bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rustic a common word?

rustic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

rustic — meaning, pronunciation and 4 definitions

adjective

3 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
characteristic of rural life
“countrified clothes”
“rustic awkwardness”
Synonymscountrified countryfied
Similarrural
2.
awkwardly simple and provincial
“bumpkinly country boys”
“rustic farmers”
“a hick town”
“the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists”
Synonymsbumpkinly hick unsophisticated
Similarprovincial
3.
characteristic of the fields or country
“agrestic simplicity”
“rustic stone walls”
Synonymsagrestic
Similarrural

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
an unsophisticated country person
Broadercommoner
Narrowercoon countryman countrywoman hillbilly peasant redneck woodsman yokel

Other forms of rustic

plural: rustics·
comparative: rusticer·
superlative: rusticest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rustic

What does rustic mean?: rustic means "characteristic of rural life". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in rustic?: rustic has 2 syllables: rus-tic. The stress falls on "rus". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌstɪk/.
What is another word for rustic?: Close synonyms include countrified, countryfied, bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is rustic a common word?: rustic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rustic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

adjective

3 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
characteristic of rural life
“countrified clothes”
“rustic awkwardness”
Synonymscountrified countryfied
Similarrural
2.
awkwardly simple and provincial
“bumpkinly country boys”
“rustic farmers”
“a hick town”
“the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists”
Synonymsbumpkinly hick unsophisticated
Similarprovincial
3.
characteristic of the fields or country
“agrestic simplicity”
“rustic stone walls”
Synonymsagrestic
Similarrural

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
an unsophisticated country person
Broadercommoner
Narrowercoon countryman countrywoman hillbilly peasant redneck woodsman yokel

Other forms of rustic

plural: rustics·
comparative: rusticer·
superlative: rusticest·

Questions about rustic

What does rustic mean?: rustic means "characteristic of rural life". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in rustic?: rustic has 2 syllables: rus-tic. The stress falls on "rus". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌstɪk/.
What is another word for rustic?: Close synonyms include countrified, countryfied, bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is rustic a common word?: rustic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

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