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rusticated

adjective, verb

rusticated is an adjective meaning “Constructed so as to produce a jagged or heavily textured surface” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-S-T-I-C-A-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does rusticated mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Constructed so as to produce a jagged or heavily textured surface.

    rusticated stonework

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of rusticate (a form of rusticate)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of rusticated

  • more rusticated comparative
  • most rusticated superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is rusticated?

Rusticated appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).