Rugged vs Rustic - What's the difference?
rugged | rustic |
Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough
* 1870 , (Mark Twain), Roughing It , Chapter LXV
Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
* 2011 , Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair
Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
* 1897 , Kate Chopin, A Morning Walk
(of a person) strong, sturdy, well-built
* 2010 , Arthru Queen Jr., Young Man: Ageless Fatherly Wisdom to Hold
(of land) rocky and bare of plantlife
* 2013 , Vicky Baker in The Guardian ,
* 1971 , United States Forest Service, Search for solitude: our wilderness heritage
Harsh; austere; hard; crabbed; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.
Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
Harsh; grating; rough to the ear -- said of sound, style, and the like.
Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.
* 1908 , Rafael Sabatini, The Abduction
Violent; rude; boisterous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
* 1909 , (Jack London), Martin Eden
(computing, of a computer) designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions
* 2011 , Nick Fletcher,
Having a rug or rugs.
Covered with a rug.
(rug)
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
* (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
Unfinished or roughly finished.
Crude, rough.
Simple; artless; unaffected.
* (Alexander Pope)
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Our rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: 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. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
* 1906 — (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Ch IX
* 1927-29' — (Mahatma Gandhi), '', Part V, The Stain of Indigo'', translated ' 1940 by (Mahadev Desai)
As adjectives the difference between rugged and rustic
is that rugged is broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough while rustic is country-styled or pastoral; rural.As a verb rugged
is past tense of rug.As a noun rustic is
a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.rugged
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- By and by, after a rugged climb, we halted on the summit of a hill which commanded a far-reaching view.
- Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.
- His hair was light and rather thin; his face strong and rugged from exposure, and his eyes narrow and observant.
- Many women and men delude themselves into thinking that only the hardest and most rugged man is attractive and to many it may be the case.
Riding with the cowboys on a Mexico ranch
- Hidden within 30,000 acres of rugged private land, the ranch is cocooned by peaks and canyons in all directions.
- Much of the area can be seen only by hikers who travel without trails to the higher reaches of this rugged mountain range.
- "Ah!" sighed the unimaginative Granby, and his honest, rugged face grew clouded. Pepper puffed in silence for a moment or two; then spoke.
- "Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength..."
Psion drops 2% after supply chain issues push it into loss
- Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red.
Derived terms
* ruggedize * ruggedly * ruggedness * semiruggedReferences
External links
* *Etymology 2
(rug) + (-ed)Adjective
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* English heteronymsrustic
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustiqueAdjective
(en adjective)- She had a rustic , woodland air.
Derived terms
* rustic moth * rustic workQuotations
{{timeline, 1700s=17??, 1800s=1818 1820}} * late 1700s — (Robert Burns), *: The Princely revel may surveyOur rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: 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. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics .