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pastoral

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of pastoral

1 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 of pastoral

bucolic, country, rural, rustic (also rustical)
Words Related to pastoral

backwoods, backwoodsy, countrified (also countryfied), provincial

agrarian, agricultural

nonurban, semirural
Near Antonyms of pastoral

citified, urbanized

metropolitan, municipal

nonagricultural, nonfarm
Antonyms of pastoral

urban
2 of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy
  • pastoral advice to a young couple preparing to marry
Synonyms of pastoral

clerical, ministerial, priestly, sacerdotal
Words Related to pastoral

evangelical (also evangelic), missionary

apostolic, canonical, diaconal, diocesan, episcopal, papal, patriarchal, pontifical

churchly, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical

divine, holy, religious, sacramental

conventual, mendicant, monastic

rabbinic (or rabbinical)
Antonyms of pastoral

lay, nonclerical, secular, temporal

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