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pastoral
adjective
1 a pastoral scene:
rural, country, countryside, countrified, outdoor, rustic, agricultural, agrarian, provincial, grassy, green, verdant;
simple, innocent, idyllic, unspoiled;
literary bucolic, sylvan, Arcadian;
rare exurban, georgic.
antonyms urban.
2 his pastoral duties:
priestly, clerical, ecclesiastical, ministerial;
rare hieratic, sacerdotal, vicarial, parsonical, rectorial, churchly, prelatic, apostolic.