Agrestic


rural; rustic.
unpolished; awkward:
agrestic behavior.
Contemporary Examples

An examination of the eerie similarities between Litchfield Prison and agrestic.
Orange Is the New Weeds: The Adventures of Jenji Kohan Across the 8th Dimension Rich Goldstein, Emily Shire August 17, 2014

Historical Examples

agrestic, a-gres′tik, adj. pertaining to the fields: rural: unpolished.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various

Cowley retreated into solitude, where he found none of the agrestic charms of the landscapes of his muse.
Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Isaac Disraeli

adjective
rural; rustic
unpolished; uncouth

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