PASTORALIST Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

pastoralist

adjective

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Recent Examples of pastoralist In the northern reaches, thousands of pastoralist herders have switched to fishing after losing their livestock to drought since 2021. — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 31 May 2026 The resemblance is particularly striking because many Palestinians are now barred from practicing their pastoralist traditions in areas where settlers continue to roam freely. — Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026 The pastoralist Maasai people, for instance, who also live in the region, have successfully been vying for supremacy with lions for hundreds of years. — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026 As pastoralist communities moved their flocks, the sheep had more contact with infected wild animals. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025

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Adjective

Stretching across western Massachusetts and coming right up to the New York border, the region feels at once pastoral and remote yet still vibrant and culturally rich.

— Madeline Weinfield, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2026
Red neon tubes illuminated art works ranging from the disturbing (a black-and-white photograph of a person stuffing sausages in their mouth) to the mundane (a pastoral painting of a snowshoe-wearing rifleman).

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of pastoral

Adjective

Easier discussions will be held around tariffs and agricultural products like soybeans, while AI, autos, technology and e-commerce will feature on the agenda, said the official, who asked for anonymity to discuss private conversations.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
The agricultural region is particularly famous for its colorful spring tulip fields, which transform acres of farmland into brilliant stripes of red, yellow, pink, and purple.

— Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of agricultural

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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

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

The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.

— J.J. Bailey, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026

Definition of monocultural

Adjective

Work on the 2025 vintage includes the use of Bouquet, a disease-resistant variety, a choice that is, allegedly, both agronomic and commercial.

— Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
An agronomic guide or a turf guide will provide the optimal mower height for your specific type of grass.

— Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026

Definition of agronomic

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

Adjective

Connecticut has also seen a boom in backyard growers popping up in suburban neighborhoods with micro-farming businesses becoming more popular.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026
Some of those people may be professional myrmecologists (scientists who specialize in the study of ants) and fourmiculture (ant-farming) enthusiasts.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026

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