BUCOLICAL Synonyms

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• the territory occupied by a nation

• the people who live in a nation or country

• an area outside of cities and towns

• a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)

• excellent and delightful in all respects

• suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene

• of or relating to a pastor

• relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

• a musical composition that evokes rural life

• a letter from a pastor to the congregation

• a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)

• (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

• of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; living in or characteristic of farming or country life

• an unsophisticated country person

• characteristic of rural life

• awkwardly simple and provincial

• characteristic of the fields or country

• having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved

• (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

• any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

• a person lacking intelligence or common sense

• easy and not involved or complicated

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

• lacking mental capacity and subtlety

• unornamented

• not wise in the ways of the world

• lacking complexity

• awkwardly simple and provincial