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Rustic vs Boisterous - What's the difference?

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Rustic is a related term of boisterous.


As adjectives the difference between rustic and boisterous

is that rustic is country-styled or pastoral; rural while boisterous is full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

As a noun rustic

is a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.

rustic

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
  • * (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
  • She had a rustic , woodland air.
  • Unfinished or roughly finished.
  • Crude, rough.
  • Simple; artless; unaffected.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=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.}}

    Derived terms

    * rustic moth * rustic work

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1700s=17??, 1800s=1818 1820}} * late 1700s — (Robert Burns), *: The Princely revel may survey
    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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
  • * 1906 — (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Ch IX
  • 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.
  • * 1927-29' — (Mahatma Gandhi), '', Part V, The Stain of Indigo'', translated ' 1940 by (Mahadev Desai)
  • Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics .

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    boisterous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
  • Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
  • Having or resembling animal exuberance.