different between rustic vs impudent
rustic
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique
Etymology
From Latin r?sticus. Doublet of roister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???st?k/
- Rhymes: -?st?k
Adjective
rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
- late 1700s — Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
- The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
- The Princely revel may survey
- 1818 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus 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, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
- To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- Crude, rough.
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
- the manners not too polite nor too rustic
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
Derived terms
- rustic moth
- rustic work
- rusticity
Translations
Noun
rustic (plural rustics)
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
- 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, 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, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, 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.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Translations
Anagrams
- Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus
Romanian
Etymology
From French rustique, from Latin rusticus.
Adjective
rustic m or n (feminine singular rustic?, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)
- rustic
Declension
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impudent
English
Etymology
From Middle French impudent, from Latin impud?ns (“shameless”), ultimately from in- +? pudere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mpj?d?nt/
Adjective
impudent (comparative more impudent, superlative most impudent)
- Not showing due respect; impertinent; bold-faced.
- The impudent children would not stop talking in class.
Synonyms
- bold
- brazen-faced
- impertinent
- See also Thesaurus:cheeky
Derived terms
- impudently
Related terms
- impudence
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin impud?ns.
Adjective
impudent (masculine and feminine plural impudents)
- impudent
Derived terms
- impudentment
Related terms
- impudència
Further reading
- “impudent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “impudent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “impudent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “impudent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impud?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.py.d??/
Adjective
impudent (feminine singular impudente, masculine plural impudents, feminine plural impudentes)
- impudent
Related terms
- impudence
Further reading
- “impudent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impud?ns.
Adjective
impudent m (feminine singular impudente, masculine plural impudens, feminine plural impudentes)
- impudent
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