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Main Entry:
rustic [ruhs-tik]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: country, rural
Synonyms: Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, artless, austere, bucolic, countrified, homely, homespun, homey, honest, natural, outland, pastoral, picturesque, plain, primitive, provincial, simple, sylvan, unaffected, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, verdant
Antonyms: city, metropolitan, suburban, urban
Main Entry: agrarian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concerning land, farming
Synonyms: agricultural, natural, peasant, rural, rustic, uncultivated, undomesticated
Main Entry: agricultural
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concerning farming, land
Synonyms: aggie, agronomical, arboricultural, floricultural, gardening, horticultural, ranch, rural, rustic
Main Entry: austere
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grim, barren
Synonyms: bald, bare, bare-bones, bleak, clean, dour, plain, primitive, rustic, severe, simple, spare, spartan, stark, subdued, unadorned, unembellished, vanilla
Antonyms: extravagant, luxurious
Main Entry: boorish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, awkward
Synonyms: bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
Antonyms: charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated
Main Entry: churlish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, boorish
Synonyms: base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar
Antonyms: gentle, nice, pleasant, polite
Main Entry: country
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rural, pastoral
Synonyms: Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, georgic, homey, out-country, outland, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated
Notes: country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person'
a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically
Antonyms: city, metropolitan, urban
Main Entry: crude
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unrefined, natural
Synonyms: amateurish, callow, coarse, green, harsh, homemade, homespun, immature, impure, in the rough, inexpert, makeshift, outline, prentice, primitive, raw, rough, rough-hewn, rude, rudimentary, rustic, simple, sketchy, thick, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, ungraded, unmatured, unmilled, unpolished, unprepared, unprocessed, unproficient, unsorted, untaught, untrained, unworked, unwrought
Antonyms: formal, planned, refined, sophisticated, stilted
Main Entry: discourteous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rude, impolite
Synonyms: abrupt, bad-mannered, boorish, brusque, cavalier, cheeky*, churlish, contumelious, crude, crusty, curt, disrespectful, flip, fresh, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, inaffable, indelicate, insolent, inurbane, oafish, offhand, rustic, sassy, smart-alecky, uncivil, uncouth, ungenteel, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined
Antonyms: civil, courteous, gracious, mannered, polite, refined, respectful, well-bred
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