IDYLS Synonyms

• 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 weather) free from storm or wind

• steadiness of mind under stress

• wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale

• not agitated; without losing self-possession

• make calm or still

• make steady

• become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation

• cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

• 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)

• not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war

• peacefully resistant in response to injustice

• characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity

• free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound

• (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots

• a period of calm weather

• an untroubled state; free from disturbances

• the absence of sound

• a disposition free from stress or emotion

• with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly')

• not showy or obtrusive

• in a softened tone

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• become quiet or quieter

• make calm or still

• 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

• not agitated; without losing self-possession

• completely clear and fine

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• not agitated; without losing self-possession

• not left to spoil

• not decayed or decomposed

• an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll

• a musical composition that evokes rural life

• a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

• a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

• a musical composition that evokes rural life