单词 | rustic |
释义 | rustic —rustical, adj. —rustically, rusticly, adv. —rusticalness, rusticness, n. /rus"tik/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural. 2. simple, artless, or unsophisticated. 3. uncouth, rude, or boorish. 4. made of roughly dressed limbs or roots of trees, as garden seats. 5. (of stonework) having the surfaces rough or irregular and the joints sunken or beveled. n. 6. a country person. 7. an unsophisticated country person. [1400-50; late ME < L rusticus, equiv. to rus the country (see RURAL) + -ticus adj. suffix] Syn. 1. See rural. Ant. 1. urban. |
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