I. adjective
Synonyms: rural , agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, country, out-country, outland, pastoral, provincial
II. noun
an inhabitant of a rural or remote area who is usually characterized by an utter lack of sophistication and cultivation
an unbelieving rustic gawking at the sky-scrapers
Synonyms: ||apple knocker, ||backwoodser, backwoodsman, bucolic, bumpkin, chawbacon, clodhopper, clown, country jake, countryman, greenhorn, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hillman, ||hodge, hoosier, jake, jay, joskin, mossback, mountaineer, peasant, provincial, redneck, ||ridge runner, rube, ||wayback, woodsy, yap, ||yob, yokel
Related Word: rural; exurbanite, suburbanite; agriculturalist, farmer, granger, husbandman
Contrasted words: burgher, oppidan, townsman; cityite, urbanite; cosmopolitan, cosmopolite
Antonyms: city slicker