pastoral

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of PASTORAL

of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people <painted a pastoral scene of a flower-filled meadow>

Synonyms bucolic, country, pastoral, rustic (also rustical)

Related Words backwoods, backwoodsy, countrified (also countryfied), provincial; agrarian, agricultural; nonurban, semirural

Near Antonyms citified, urbanized; metro, metropolitan, municipal; nonagricultural, nonfarm

Antonyms urban

of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy <pastoral advice to a young couple preparing to marry>

Synonyms clerkly, ministerial, pastoral, priestly, sacerdotal

Related Words evangelical (also evangelic), missionary; apostolic, canonical, diaconal, diocesan, episcopal, papal, patriarchal, pontifical; churchly, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical; divine, holy, religious, sacramental; conventual, mendicant, monachal, monastic; caliphal, rabbinic (or rabbinical)

Antonyms lay, nonclerical, secular, temporal

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