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pastoral

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

pastoral

n. a letter from a pastor to the congregation

idyll, pastorale

n. a musical composition that evokes rural life

pastoral

adj. of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter"

pastoral

adj. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"

idyllic

adj. suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; "his idyllic life in Tahiti"; "the pastoral legends of America's Golden Age"

bucolic, Arcadian, rustic

adj. used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

scenic

adj. used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"

agreeable, good natured

adj. conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner"

kindly, couthie, couthy

adj. (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial

soothing, dulcet

adj. extremely pleasant in a gentle way; "the most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches"

enjoyable, gratifying, pleasurable

adj. affording satisfaction or pleasure; "the company was enjoyable"; "found her praise gratifying"; "full of happiness and pleasurable excitement"; "good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read"

grateful

adj. affording comfort or pleasure; "the grateful warmth of the fire"

farming, agrarian, agricultural

adj. relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"

rustic, agrestic

adj. characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"

rustic, countrified, countryfied

adj. characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"

country, country-bred

adj. rough and uncouth; "a country boy"

country, country-style

adj. typical of the country; "country-style sausage"; "country music"

homespun, folksy, cracker-barrel

adj. characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"

farm

adj. "farm animals"; "a farm hand"

frontier

adj. on the American frontier: "one of the last real frontier towns"; "hardships of frontier life"

hick

adj. awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

hobnailed

adj. marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; "hobnailed laborers"

urban

adj. located in or characteristic of a city or city life; "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners"

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