bucolic

1. 1.

   (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

   “a country life of arcadian contentment”

   “a pleasant bucolic scene”

   “charming in its pastoral setting”

   “rustic tranquility”

   Synonymsarcadianpastoral

   Similarrural
2. 2.

   relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

   “pastoral seminomadic people”

   “pastoral land”

   “a pastoral economy”

   Synonymspastoral

Other forms of bucolic

plural

bucolics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bucolic

What does bucolic mean?

bucolic means "a country person". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bucolic?

bucolic has 3 syllables: bu-co-lic. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /bjuˈkɑlɪk/.

What is another word for bucolic?

Close synonyms include peasant, provincial, eclogue, idyll, idyl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bucolic a common word?

bucolic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bucolic?

1 word rhymes with bucolic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.