idyllic
/ɪˈdɪlɪk
/adjective
Like an idyll; extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque: an attractive hotel in an idyllic setting...
- Some say a horrible monster cast its ominous shadow over the peaceful and idyllic valley.
- The unhappiness of others somehow besmirches their own idyllic picture.
- After long travelling, foul weather and false starts, the picture before us is not nearly so idyllic or clear cut.
Synonyms
perfect, ideal, idealized, wonderful, blissful, halcyon, happy;
heavenly, paradisal, utopian, Elysian;
peaceful, picturesque, pastoral, rural, rustic, bucolic, unspoilt
literary Arcadian, sylvan
Derivatives
idyllically
/ adverb ...- The hall, now a hotel, is idyllically located on an island which is accessible only by a narrow, iron footbridge.
- The initiation week was idyllically fun and adventurous but frustratingly empty, because most of the people I looked up to either left the college or got segregated to different classes.
- If one were doing a screenplay, it should not (MGM-style) show young Cathy and young Heathcliff idyllically united.
Rhymes
- rough-grained
- rough grazing
- rough-grind
- rough grinder
- rough-ground
- roughhead
- rough-headed poppy
- rough-hew
- rough-hewn
- rough horsetail
- rough hound
- roughhouse
- roughie
- rough-in
- roughing
- roughing pump
- roughings
- roughish
- roughit
- rough justice
- rough knot
- rough-leaved
- rough-legged
- rough-legged buzzard
- rough-legged hawk