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bucolic
/bjuˈkɑlɪk/
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What does bucolic mean?
adjective
- Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
- Relating to the pleasant aspects of rustic country life.
- Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A pastoral poem.
- A rustic, peasant.
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See this word in context.
We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase.
There is a deal of grim bucolic humour in this, and it very nearly hits the truth.
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But while we welcome the evidences that so many are ceasing to be bucolic heathen, much observation has shown that the need of further enlightenment is large indeed.
Whereupon he rose in a storm of bucolic wrath, and said he'd be gol darned if he'd have a lot of these danged city brats interfering with his work.
It was not that we concealed a bucolic scorn of effete but solid comfort; only it did seem ridiculous that a man should cumber himself with a fifth wheel on a smoothly macadamized road.