Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural or rustic |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, countrified, country, pastoral |
| Main Entry: | clown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid, ignorant person |
| Synonyms: | blockhead, boor, bucolic, buffoon, bumpkin, chuff, churl, clodhopper, gawk, hayseed, hick, hind, jake, lout, mucker, oaf, peasant, rube, rustic, swain, yahoo, yokel |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural, pastoral |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, georgic, homey, out-country, outland, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, urban |
| Main Entry: | halcyon |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | at peace, balmy, bucolic, gentle, golden, happy, harmonious, palmy, pastoral, quiet, serene, soothing, still, sunny, tranquil, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | idyllic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perfect; extremely pleasant |
| Synonyms: | arcadian, bucolic, charming, comfortable, halcyon, heavenly, ideal, idealized, out-of-this-world, pastoral, peaceful, picturesque, pleasing, rustic, unspoiled |
| Notes: | idle means not in action or at work; idyll means a simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life - or a lighthearted carefree episode or experience; idyllic means excellent and delightful in all respects |
| Antonyms: | bad, disagreeble, flawed, imperfect |
| Main Entry: | pastoral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful, especially referring to the countryside |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, bucolic, countrified, country, idyllic, outland, provincial, rural, rustic, simple, sylvan |
| Antonyms: | agitated, bustling, busy, urban |
| Main Entry: | provincial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | countrified; limited |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, bucolic, country, hidebound, homegrown, homespun, insular, inward-looking, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, small-town, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated |
| Antonyms: | citified, liberal, metropolitan, modern |
| Main Entry: | rural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | country, not urban |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, agronomic, backwoods, bucolic, countrified, farm, georgic, idyllic, natural, outland, pastoral, provincial, ranch, rustic, rustical, simple, sylvan, unsophisticated |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, suburban, urban |
| Main Entry: | rustic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | country, rural |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, artless, austere, bucolic, countrified, homely, homespun, homey, honest, natural, outland, pastoral, picturesque, plain, primitive, provincial, simple, sylvan, unaffected, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, verdant |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, suburban, urban |
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