adj. 1 See rural, 1, above. 2 peasant, plain, simple, uncomplicated, unsophisticated, naïve, ingenuous, guileless, artless, unrefined, unpolished, countrified, uncultivated, uncultured, boorish, crude, rough, unmannerly, hill-billy, backwoods, awkward, ungainly, cloddish, plodding, oafish, gawky, lumpen, loutish Who could dream that such a rustic homebody would some day be famous for the most fashionable literary salon in London?
n. 3 peasant, bumpkin, boor, yokel, hill-billy, countryman, countrywoman, country boy or girl, oaf, country cousin, Colloq clodhopper, Derogatory and offensive bog-trotter, US and Canadian hayseed, hick In those days, few rustics ever even visited a city