rustic

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people. synonym: rural.
• adjective Lacking the refinement or elegance associated with urban life.
• adjective Charmingly simple or unsophisticated in a manner considered typical of country living.
• adjective Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood.
• adjective Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry.
• noun A rural person.
• noun A person regarded as unsophisticated, guileless, or coarse from having been raised in the country.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Noting a peculiar form or style of lumber with lapping edges, much used in place of clapboards for covering the exteriors of buildings and also used to some extent as a material for the ceilings and interior walls of frame houses. The commonest form consists of a board, usually about six inches in width, which is finished with a beveled edge so constructed as to lap over the lower edge of the board just above. The lower edge is finished with a bevel also, beyond which projects a short tongue, over which the upper bevel of the next lower board is to lap.
• Of or belonging to the country or to country people; characteristic of rural life; hence, plain; homely; inartificial; countrified: as, rustic fare; rustic garb.
• Living in the country; rural, as opposed to town-bred; hence, unsophisticated; artless; simple; sometimes in a depreciatory sense, rude; awkward; boorish.
• Made of rustic work, especially in wood. See rustic work, below.
• In anc. Latin manuscript, noting letters of one of the two oldest forms, the other being the square.
• In woodwork, summer-houses, garden furniture, etc., made from rough limbs and roots of trees arranged in fanciful forms.
• Synonyms and Pastoral, Bucolic, etc. See rural.
• Countrified.
• noun One who lives in the country; a countryman; a peasant; in a contemptuous use, a clown or boor.
• noun Rustic work.
• noun In ceramics, a ground picked with a sharp point so as to have the surface roughened with hollows having sharp edges, sometimes waved, as if imitating slag.
• noun In entomology, a noctuid or rustic moth: as, the northern rustic, Agrotis lucernea; the unarmed rustic, A. inermis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
• noun Poetic A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
• adjective Of or pertaining to the country; rural.
• adjective Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished.
• adjective Coarse; plain; simple.
• adjective Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
• adjective (Zoöl.) any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvæ are called cutworms. See Cutworm.
• adjective (Arch.), (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective country-styled or pastoral; rural
• adjective unfinished or roughly finished work
• adjective crude, rough
• noun A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective characteristic of the fields or country
• adjective characteristic of rural life
• adjective awkwardly simple and provincial
• noun an unsophisticated country person