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The Meaning of bucolic

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
  • (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

Synonyms

peasant , churl , idyll , barbarian , tyke , provincial , idyl , boor , tike , eclogue , pastorale , pastoral , arcadian , rustic , agricultural , coarse , uncouth , artless , countrified , plain , unpolished , awkward , country , rude , unsophisticated , boorish , hoidenish , rural , untaught , inelegant , sylvan , verdant , clownish , outlandish

Antonyms

urban , accomplished , cultured , polished , refined , urbane , city-like , elegant , polite , well-bred

Rhymes

alcoholic , anabolic , balik , bialik , bolich , bolick , bollock , collick , diastolic , falik , folic , frolic , gawlik , glycolic , holick , hydraulic , hyperbolic , kovalik , kowalik , krolick , malec , mccolloch , melancholic , metabolic , michalec , molock , nikolic , nonalcoholic , parabolic , paulick , paulik , pawlik , phenolic , polich , pollack , pollak , pollick , pollock , pollok , rollick , symbolic , vitriolic , wallich , wallick , wollack , workaholic , zapalac