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Tranquil vs Bucolic - What's the difference?

tranquil | bucolic |

As adjectives the difference between tranquil and bucolic

is that tranquil is free from emotional or mental disturbance while bucolic is rustic, pastoral, country-styled.

As a noun bucolic is

a pastoral poem.

tranquil

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
  • * 1847 , , chapter XXVIII
    • Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
  • Calm; without motion or sound.
  • * 1921 , Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography , page 262
    • that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil' because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their ' tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.

    Synonyms

    * (free from emotional disturbance) calm, peaceful, serene, steady * peaceful

    Antonyms

    * (free from emotional disturbance) agitated

    Related terms

    * tranquillity * tranquillize * tranquilly * tranquilness

    bucolic

    English

    (wikipedia bucolic)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
  • Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pastoral poem.
  • A rustic, peasant
    • See also
    * georgic