Agrestic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rural; rustic; pertaining to fields or the country; unpolished.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the fields; rural; unpolished.
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  • adjective. characteristic of the fields or country
  • adjective. (of behavior) rustic and uncouth
  • Word Usage
    "The word agrestic, meaning rural and rustic, is teetering on the edge, too, in their opinion, which is odd, because it is the name of the gated "community" where Nancy Botwin lives in the TV show Weeds and should be well back in the usage."
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    rural  unrefined  
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    ruderal  
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