Rustic vs Soporific - What's the difference?
rustic | soporific |
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)
Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
(figuratively) Something boring or dull.
Tending to induce sleep.
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* 1909 , (Beatrix Potter), (The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14220/14220-h/14220-h.htm]:
(lb) boring, dull
As adjectives the difference between rustic and soporific
is that rustic is country-styled or pastoral; rural while soporific is tending to induce sleep.As nouns the difference between rustic and soporific
is that rustic is a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area while soporific is something inducing sleep, especially a drug.rustic
English
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 .
Anagrams
* * *soporific
English
Alternative forms
* soporifick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- The professor delivered a soporific lecture.
- For we are not here to understand, as perhaps some have, that an author actually falls asleep while he is writing. It is true, that readers are too apt to be so overtaken; To say the truth, these soporific parts are so many scenes of serious artfully interwoven, in order to contrast and set off the rest;
- It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific'.” ''I'' have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then ''I'' am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very ' soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!