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
- ring bayonet
- ring beam
- ring bearer
- ring-bill
- ring-billed gull
- ring binder
- ring binding
- ring bit
- ringbolt
- ringbone
- ringboned
- ring book
- ring-bound
- ring-building
- ring-built
- ring burner
- ring canal
- ring cartilage
- ring chromosome
- ring chuck
- ring circuit
- ring coal
- ring complex
- ring composition
- ring counter