pastoral | Definition of pastoral

Synonyms and Antonyms of pastoral

1 of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people

painted a pastoral scene of a flower-filled meadow

Synonyms of pastoral

bucolic, country, rural, rustic (also rustical)

Words Related to pastoral

backwoods, backwoodsy, countrified (also countryfied), provincial

agrarian, agricultural

nonurban, semirural

Near Antonyms of pastoral

citified, urbanized

metro, metropolitan, municipal

nonagricultural, nonfarm

Antonyms of pastoral

2 of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy

pastoral advice to a young couple preparing to marry

Synonyms of pastoral

clerical, clerkly, ministerial, priestly, sacerdotal

Words Related to pastoral

evangelical (also evangelic), missionary

apostolic, canonical, diaconal, diocesan, episcopal, papal, patriarchal, pontifical

churchly, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical

divine, holy, religious, sacramental

conventual, mendicant, monachal, monastic

caliphal, rabbinic (or rabbinical)

Antonyms of pastoral

lay, nonclerical, secular, temporal