agrest-

(Latin: rustic, rural; pertaining to the fields; from ager then agrestis, "field")

agrestal (adjective), more agrestal, most agrestal
1. Dwelling, or growing wild, in the fields; wild.
2. A reference to fields, rural, rustic.
agrested (adjective), more agrested, most agrested
A reference to a person or people who belong to the open country, wild; hence, rustic, rude.
agrestial (adjective), more agrestial, most agrestial
Referring to inhabiting the fields or open country; wild; specifically in botany, growing wild in cultivated land.
agrestian (s) (noun), agrestians (pl)
Someone who belongs to the country; rustic: "Sam was an agrestian who maintained his country characteristics and manners."
agrestic (adjective), more agrestic, most agrestic
1. Of or pertaining to the country or fields, as opposed to the city; rural, rustic, socially unpolished; hence, uncouth: Denise's social behavior was dominated by the agrestic social surroundings of the rural countryside in which she was reared.
2. Conveying a socially unpolished or awkward conduct: Mary's husband had agrestic behavior which indicated that he was not very sophisticated nor cosmopolitan, despite having lived 30 years in the city after he retired from his agricultural life.
3. A reference to something that is used by people in the perfume and flavor industries to describe a special aroma: Elizabeth used a variety of scents that were manufactured to have the agrestic smell of the countryside; such as, hay, heather, forest depths, or meadows.
Rustic, rural, an unpolished behavior.
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agrestical (adjective), more agrestical, most agrestical
Rural; rustic; referring to countrified behaviors as opposed to being like city people; being unpolished in one's manners.
agresty (adjective), more agresty, most agresty
1. Rusticity, "clownishness"; countrified; uncouth or unpolished.
2. Etymology: from the Latin agrestis; from ager, "a field"; a close relative of agriculture and of agrestal, which refers to "uncultivated plants that are growing on cultivated land">

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.