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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful, quiet (inanimate) |
| Synonyms: | at a standstill, at peace, bland, breathless, breezeless, bucolic, cool, halcyon, harmonious, hushed, in order, inactive, low-key, mild, motionless, pacific, pastoral, placid, quiescent, reposeful, reposing, restful, rural, serene, slow, smooth, soothing, still, stormless, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, waveless, windless |
| Antonyms: | excited, fierce, frenzied, rough, stormy, turbulent, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | clerical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning clergy |
| Synonyms: | apostolic, canonical, churchly, cleric, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, episcopal, holy, ministerial, monastic, monkish, papal, parsonical, parsonish, pastoral, pontifical, prelatic, priestly, rabbinical, sacerdotal, sacred, theocratical |
| Main Entry: | ecclesiastical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | churchly |
| Synonyms: | clerical, diaconal, episcopal, holy, ministerial, orthodox, parochial, pastoral, religious, sectarian, spiritual |
| 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: | nomadic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itinerant |
| Synonyms: | drifting, gypsy, itinerate, migrant, migratory, pastoral, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, roaming, roving, traveling, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
| Antonyms: | native, settled |
| 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 |
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