Bucolic

Word: Bucolic

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: Something that is of shepherds or of a rural life

Synonyms: Pastoral, agrarian

Antonyms: Metropolitan

Helpful hints to remember: This word is difficult, though you must appreciate that it's considered the more difficult cousin of “pastoral”, which is word of great historical significance, and therefore has a tendency to pop-up in examinations that challenge your vocabulary.

Sentences:

• The office worker envied the easiness of the farmer's bucolic lifestyle.
• For millenniums, bucolic life has been portrayed with idealized simplicity so that city dwellers may use its conjured imagery as a escape from their own metropolises.
• Though she possessed more modern tastes herself, the boy's house had its own bucolic charm.