Word Meanings - BUCOLIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUCOLIC)

• Clownish
• Bustic
• boorish
• bucolic
• Boeotian
• awkward
• clumsy
• cloddish
• untutored
• rude
• Provincial
• Appendant
• annexed
• outlying
• rural
• countrified
• rustic
• Rural
• Countrified
• agricultural
• verdant
• sylvan
• grassy
• arcadian
• pastoral
• Rustic
• nomadic
• unpolished
• clownish
• rough
• coarse
• plain
• unsophisticated
• simple
• artless
• primitive

Related words: (words related to BUCOLIC)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• RURALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• AWKWARD SQUAD
  A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• OUTLYING
  Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
• ARCADIAN; ARCADIC
  Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• EQUICRURAL
  Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET
• THOROUGH BASS
  The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
• BICRURAL
  Having two legs. Hooker.