GEORGIC Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of georgic

as in bucolic

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noun

as in pastoral

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Recent Examples of georgic

Adjective

And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020

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Adjective

The filmmaker contrasts her bucolic nature scenes with shots of the giant ships passing by and the interiors and exteriors of the factories located near the island, belching smoke and lit up at night like a forbidding theme park.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
The two set out with Ross, a raucous party boy, and the three drive to a secluded, bucolic manor.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of bucolic

Noun

Debate has persisted regarding churches with women serving in assistant pastoral or preaching roles.

— Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Debate has persisted on where to draw the line regarding churches with women serving in assistant pastoral or preaching roles.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 June 2026

Definition of pastoral

Adjective

Less enforcement means more risk for growers, local merchants and agricultural hedgers in the marketplace.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
As with all emerging markets, a key risk is rising global interest rates, and for Latin America in particular, the El Niño weather phenomenon which could lead to crop damage for agricultural exporters.

— Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of agricultural

Noun

Because so many of Gunn’s friends died in San Francisco, a city where Gunn had found happiness and freedom, then these elegies are also a monument to a time of communal sorrow and mourning.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Their books are therefore, in some respects, elegies to a conception of reading and writing which seems to be nearing an end.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of elegy

Adjective

Herb and vegetable gardens, fruit trees, wine grapes and beehives add an agrarian dimension.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Rather, my aim in the following pages is to show how a set of novels by Gallegos and Güiraldes posed and answered agrarian questions in a manner that only the novel could, on the level of aesthetic form.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of agrarian

Adjective

Her parents had drained swamps in order to create arable land and served in the Haganah pre-state military organization.

— Natasha Mozgovaya, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Given China’s shrinking labor force and the effects of overproduction and climate change on its arable land, Beijing is likely to remain reliant on foreign food products in the coming years.

— Caitlin Welsh, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of arable

Noun

People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
The conventions ground the writing as meter and rhyme steady a sonnet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

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