Word of the Day: RUSTIC

Rural or rough

rustic (adj) - of or pertaining to the countryside; rural or lacking sophistication; simple, rough, or unadorned [ruhs-tik]

BREAKDOWN: RUS- (the country) + -TIC (pertaining to)

• a rustic is someone from the country or a rural area

• rusticity is a state or quality of being from the country or being simple or unsophisticated

• rusticate means to retire, send, or compel to live in the countryside; to make more rural; to expel or suspend from a university

"There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy." —Amos Bronson Alcott

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