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Definition of rural : Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.

Synonyms:

unsophisticated, rude, inelegant, hick, plain, arcadian, coarse, agrestic, country-style, cracker-barrel, country-bred, hobnailed, untaught, ranch, verdant, bucolic, clownish, boorish, sylvan, folksy, frontier, uncouth, countryfied, provincial, campestral, urban, homespun, backwoods, exurban, outlandish, countrified, georgic, farming, country, awkward, hoidenish, unpolished, artless

cultivated, agrarian, horticultural, farm, forest, pastoral, agricultural, agronomic, rustic

Usage examples:

• There is no breath of the poetry of rural nature in Plautus. - "The Roman Poets of the Republic", W. Y. Sellar.
• Indeed, in the old- fashioned building the rural seemed to have been the only style of architecture attempted. - "Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories", Mrs. Woods Baker.
• The country gentlemen of the time followed the hounds and enjoyed rural sports of all kinds, drank ale, and smoked tobacco. - "The Social History of Smoking", G. L. Apperson.