Countryside vs Idyllic - What's the difference?
countryside | idyllic |
(en noun) (typically used with the definite article)
A rural landscape.
A rural area, or the rural part of a larger area, as in "the Swedish countryside."
An idyllic state or situation. (A substantive use of the adjective)
* 1922 — , ch V
As nouns the difference between countryside and idyllic
is that countryside is a rural landscape while idyllic is an idyllic state or situation. A substantive use of the adjective.As an adjective idyllic is
of or pertaining to idylls.countryside
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Noun
(rural)idyllic
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Quotations
* 1896 — , ch 17 *: My fellow-creatures, from whom I was thus separated, began to assume idyllic virtue and beauty in my memory. * 1922 — , ch II *: The rest of the road was as idyllic as the start.Noun
(en noun)- He could retire to the idyllic with the knowledge that he had not been wanting when Romance called.