Cosmopolitan and Rustic

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Cosmopolitan adjective - Having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience.

Usage example: a college student who now seems conspicuously cosmopolitan after spending his junior year abroad

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Rustic is an antonym for cosmopolitan in topics: sophisticated, worldly-wise.

Rustic noun - An awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country.

Usage example: a rustic who was awed by the prices that city dwellers had to pay

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Cosmopolitan is an antonym for rustic in topics: yokel, rural.

Nearby Words: rust, rusticity, rusticated, rustication, rustically

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