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Rustic vs Honest - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between rustic and honest

is that rustic is country-styled or pastoral; rural while honest is scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.

As a noun rustic

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

As a verb honest is

to adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.

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 .

    Anagrams

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    honest

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
    • We're the most honest people you will ever come across.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health.
  • (of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
    • an honest''' account of events''; '''''honest reporting
  • In good faith; without malice.
    • an honest mistake
  • (of a measurement device) Accurate.
    • an honest scale
  • Authentic; full.
    • an honest day's work
  • Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
    • an honest dollar
  • Open; frank.
    • an honest countenance
  • (obsolete) Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
    (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * dishonest

    Derived terms

    * honest as the day is long * honesty

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
    • (Archbishop Sandys)
  • * (Ben Jonson)
    • You have very much honested my lodging with your presence.

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