Agrestic (adj) (literary)
ag-rest-ik
Relating to the countryside, rural.
From the Latin agr- field. What a pretty word. I just stumbled across it today and just had to share.
Example sentences
“The agrestic community often had a slower pace of life than those urban dwellers.”
“The rate of agrestic poverty has increased since so many from the community moved to more urban areas.”
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