bucolic
bucolic
Definition
bu·colic (byo̵̅o̅ käl′ik)
adjective
- of shepherds; pastoral
- of country life or farms; rustic
Etymology: L bucolicus < Gr boukolikos < boukolos, herdsman < bous, ox (see cow) + -kolos < ? IE base *kel-, to drive > hold, L celer
noun
- a pastoral poem
- a rustic; countrified person
bu·col′i·cally adverb
bucolic
Synonyms
bucolic
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- feel-good: I wrote it as another feel-good bucolic frolic, but there are three romances in there too.
Modifies a noun
- setting: Will it be in a suitably tranquil and bucolic setting?
- scene: They wanted a magic window onto idealized bucolic scenes, not the artist's visceral reaction to the elemental violence of actual nature.
- life: But the film is not meant as a tirade against the US, no less than a celebration of French bucolic life.
- landscape: His films feature cute creatures fighting tooth and nail to preserve their communities, and bucolic landscapes under threat of destruction.
- countryside: The astonishingly beautiful and bucolic Austrian countryside belies the horrors that occurred here.
- bliss: Tho we may whimsically dream of bucolic bliss, in reality everyone accepts that life without electricity would be grim up north.
