rustic – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of rustic

Adjective: rustic

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore rustic
Superlativemost rustic

Sample Sentences

  • rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
  • She had a rustic, woodland air. [1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven:]
  • 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. [1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:]
  • To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature. [1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:]
  • rustic manners
  • the manners not too polite nor too rustic [1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:]
  • 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. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister. See: Latin Adjectives 'rūsticus'.