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Vulgar vs Rustic - What's the difference?

vulgar | rustic |

As adjectives the difference between vulgar and rustic

is that vulgar is vulgar while rustic is country-styled or pastoral; rural.

As a noun rustic is

a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.

vulgar

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
  • * {{quote-book
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  • * The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.
  • (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
  • * Bishop Fell
    • It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.
  • * Bancroft
    • The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
  • * 1860 , G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis? , age 265
    • Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis , the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

    Synonyms

    * (obscene) inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane * (ordinary) common, ordinary, popular

    Derived terms

    * (obscene) vulgarity * (ordinary) vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate * vulgar fraction

    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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