rustic

adj

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.

   “rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely”

   “She had a rustic, woodland air.”

   “late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.”

   “With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.”

   “To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.”

2. Unfinished or roughly finished.

   “rustic manners”

3. Crude, rough.
4. Simple; artless; unaffected.

   “the manners not too polite nor too rustic”

   “Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.”

noun

1. A rural person.

   “The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.”

   “The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.”

2. (derogatory)An unsophisticated or uncultured person.

   “Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.”

3. A noctuoid moth.
4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.