Entry Word: rural

Function: adjective

Meaning: of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people <grew up in a rural community where more than half the people were farmers> <a painter noted for his rural landscapes>

Synonyms bucolic, country, pastoral, rustic

Related Words countrified (also countryfied), provincial; agrarian, agricultural

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

Antonyms urban