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Rural vs Idyllic - What's the difference?

rural | idyllic |

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)
  • Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 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 * landly

    Antonyms

    * urban * suburban

    See also

    * country ----

    idyllic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to idylls.
  • Extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.
  • 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)
  • An idyllic state or situation. (A substantive use of the adjective)
  • * 1922 — , ch V
  • He could retire to the idyllic with the knowledge that he had not been wanting when Romance called.

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