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say it: RUH-stik
rustic is an adjective and noun meaning "characteristic of rural life". It is pronounced /ˈɹʌstɪk/ — RUH-stik. It carries 4 recorded senses.
characteristic of rural life
“countrified clothes”
“rustic awkwardness”
awkwardly simple and provincial
“bumpkinly country boys”
“rustic farmers”
“a hick town”
“the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists”
an unsophisticated country person
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.
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.