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rustic

Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌstɪk/

The English word “rustic” has 8 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
  2. Unfinished or roughly finished.
  3. Crude, rough.
  4. Simple; artless; unaffected.

noun

  1. A rural person.
  2. An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
  3. A noctuoid moth.
  4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Etymology

From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.

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