having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas

pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.

pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic.

portraying or suggesting idyllically the life of shepherds or of the country, as a work of literature, art, or music

pastoral poetry; a pastoral symphony.

of, pertaining to, or consisting of shepherds.

of or pertaining to a pastor or the duties of a pastor

pastoral visits to a hospital.

used for pasture, as land.

a poem, play, or the like, dealing with the life of shepherds, commonly in a conventional or artificial manner, or with simple rural life generally; a bucolic.

a picture or work of art representing the shepherds' life.

Music . pastorale.

a treatise on the duties of a pastor.

a letter to the people from their spiritual pastor.

a letter to the clergy or people of an ecclesiastical district from its bishop.

Also called pastoral staff. crosier ( def. 1 ) .

adjective

agitated , bustling , busy , urban

adjective

agrarian , agrestic , arcadian , bucolic , countrified , country , idyllic , outland , provincial , rural , rustic , simple , sylvan , campestral , ecclesiastical , geoponic , georgic , innocent , picturesque , poem , theocritean