Rural vs Idyllic - What's the difference?
rural | idyllic |
Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 An idyllic state or situation. (A substantive use of the adjective)
* 1922 — , ch V
As adjectives the difference between rural and idyllic
is that rural is pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas while idyllic is of or pertaining to idylls.As a noun idyllic is
an idyllic state or situation. A substantive use of the adjective.rural
English
(wikipedia rural)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}
Synonyms
* campestral * landlyAntonyms
* urban * suburbanSee also
* country ----idyllic
English
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.