rube | Definition of rube

Synonyms and Antonyms of rube

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country

rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time

Synonyms of rube

bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, provincial, rustic, yokel

Words Related to rube

boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf

greenhorn, tenderfoot

backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms of rube

slicker, smoothy (or smoothie)

metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms of rube

cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate