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| Main Entry: | bucolic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural or rustic |
| Synonyms: | agrarian, agricultural, countrified, country, pastoral, Arcadian |
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| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural, pastoral |
| Synonyms: | agrarian, bucolic, countrified, homey, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, Arcadian, agrestic, campestral, georgic, out-country, outland |
| 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: | balmy, bucolic, gentle, golden, happy, harmonious, pastoral, quiet, serene, soothing, still, sunny, tranquil, untroubled, at peace, palmy |
| Main Entry: | idyllic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perfect; extremely pleasant |
| Synonyms: | bucolic, charming, comfortable, halcyon, heavenly, ideal, pastoral, peaceful, picturesque, pleasing, rustic, unspoiled, arcadian, idealized, out-of-this-world |
| Antonyms: | bad, imperfect, disagreeble, flawed |
| Main Entry: | pastoral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful, especially referring to the countryside |
| Synonyms: | agrarian, bucolic, countrified, country, idyllic, provincial, rural, rustic, simple, sylvan, Arcadian, agrestic, outland |
| Antonyms: | agitated, busy, urban, bustling |
| Main Entry: | provincial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | countrified; limited |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, bucolic, country, homegrown, homespun, insular, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated, hidebound, inward-looking, small-town |
| Antonyms: | liberal, metropolitan, modern, citified |
| Main Entry: | rural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | country, not urban |
| Synonyms: | agrarian, agricultural, backwoods, bucolic, countrified, farm, idyllic, natural, pastoral, provincial, ranch, rustic, simple, sylvan, unsophisticated, Arcadian, agronomic, georgic, outland, rustical |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, suburban, urban |
| Main Entry: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful, quiet (inanimate) |
| Synonyms: | bland, breathless, bucolic, cool, halcyon, harmonious, inactive, low-key, mild, motionless, pacific, pastoral, placid, quiescent, restful, rural, serene, slow, smooth, soothing, still, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, at a standstill, at peace, breezeless, hushed, in order, reposeful, reposing, stormless, waveless, windless |
| Antonyms: | excited, fierce, frenzied, rough, stormy, turbulent, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | rustic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | country, rural |
| Synonyms: | agrarian, agricultural, artless, austere, bucolic, countrified, homely, homespun, homey, honest, natural, pastoral, picturesque, plain, primitive, provincial, simple, sylvan, unaffected, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, verdant, Arcadian, outland |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, suburban, urban |
| Main Entry: | clown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid, ignorant person |
| Synonyms: | blockhead*, boor, bucolic, buffoon, bumpkin*, churl, clodhopper*, gawk, hayseed*, hick*, lout, oaf, peasant, rube, rustic, yahoo*, yokel, chuff, hind, jake, mucker, swain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Main Entry: | domesticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
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| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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