Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | bucolic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural or rustic |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, countrified, country, pastoral |
| 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: | naive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, trusting |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green*, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | experienced, leery, skeptical, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | rustic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, uncouth |
| Synonyms: | awkward, boorish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, dull, foolish, graceless, ignorant, inelegant, loutish, maladroit, rough, rude, stupid, uncultured, uneducated, ungainly, unmannerly, unpolished, unsophisticated |
| Antonyms: | couth, cultured, polished, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | arcadian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pastoral |
| Synonyms: | bucolic, countrified, country, idyllic, innocent, peaceful, provincial, rural, rustic, simple |
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