Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
approval You can use rustic to describe things or people that you approve of because they are simple or unsophisticated in a way that is typical of the countryside. the rustic charm of a country lifestyle. someone from the country, especially a farm worker
awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"
having a cemented spodic horizon which has enough amorphous iron to turn redder on ignition, which underlies an albic horizon, and lacks a subhorizon of the spodic horizon which is 2 5 cm or more thick and which is continuously cemented by a combination of organic matter and aluminium, with or without iron ("thin iron pan") (in Podzols only)
used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"