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hazel, auburn, rust-colored, rusty; yellowish-brown, fawn, cinnamon, tawny; light brown, ecru, beige; brownish-red, rufous, maroon; brickdust-colored, autumnal. rust, n. 1. oxidation, patination, corrosion; patina, verdigris, aerugo; tarnish, stain, film, incrustation. -v. 2. oxidize, corrode, erode, wear away; film over, tarnish.
3. deteriorate, go to pot, go to seed, go stale, go downhill, degenerate, decline; fall apart, fall apart at the seams, hit the skids; decay, wither, wither on the vine, rot.
4. erode, eat away, eat at, wear away, gnaw at, undermine; impair, injure, damage, harm; spoil, blight. rustic, adj. 1. rural, farm, country, agrestic, agrarian, agricultural, agronomical, geoponic, georgic; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan, Arcadian. 1. plain, simple, modest, unpretentious, unpretending, unassuming, unaffected, normal, informal; unsophisticated, unpolished, unrefined, uncultured, uncultivated; naive, artless, guileless, ingenuous, candid, open, unsuspecting; coarse, rough, roughcast, rough-hewn, linsey-woolsey, inelegant, indelicate; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, country-bred, country-born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, SI. hickish, SI. rube, SI. hayseed; homespun, homebred, homey, homely, homelike, homish, down-home, (usu. of thought or philosophy) cracker-barrel, Inf. folksy.
3. uncouth, rude, graceless, lacking in the social graces, unmannerly, ill-mannered, ill-bred, low-bred; crude, vulgar, crass, raw, boorish, churlish; awkward, clumsy, inept, maladroit, heavy-handed, blundering, bungling, gawky, gawkish, ungainly, like a bull in a china shop; loutish, oafish, doltish, lumpish, lumpen, lubberly, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish. -n. 4. peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman, hobnail; farmer, plowman, plowboy, chuff, gaffer, swain, kerne, son or tiller of the soil, (in Egypt) fellah, (in Russia) muszhik, (in Spanish America and Southwestern U.S.) peon, Archaic, hind; yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hawbuck, Dial, lumpkin, Often Disparaging, hillbilly, Disparaging, bogtrotter, Inf. chawbacon, Inf. cider squeezer, SI. hick, SI. wood-hick, SI. rube, SI. hayseed, SI. hoosier, Fr. SI. truffe. rusticate, v. 1. vacation, vacation in the country, sojourn, sojourn in the country, retire to the country, estivate; retire, go into retirement, retire from the world, abandon or forsake the world, seclude oneself, go into seclusion, shut oneself up, hole up, live apart, live alone; drop out or opt out of society, drop or opt out, SI. cop out.
2. ruralize, go rural, pastoralize, go pastoral, coun-trify, go country, return to the soil or land. rusticity, n. 1. ruralism, agrarianism, agricultural-ism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism, provincialism, provinciality.
2. plainness, simplicity, modesty, unspoiledness, unpretentiousness, unaffectedness, normality, normalcy, informality; unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, lack of polish or refinement, unculturedness; naivete, naTveness, artlessness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, candidness, openness; coarseness, roughness, inelegantness, indelicateness; inurbanity, backwood-siness, yokelism, SI. hickishness, SI. rubishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness.
3. uncouthness, rudeness, gracelessness, unmannerliness, ill-manneredness; crudeness, crassness, rawness, boorishness, churlishness, oafishness; awkwardness, clumsiness, gawkiness, cloddishness, doltishness, loutishness.
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