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antipastoral

antipastoral adjective: eschewing pastoral literary themes and conventions.

Adjective

antipastoral (comparative more antipastoral, superlative most antipastoral)

  1. Eschewing pastoral literary themes and conventions.

Noun

antipastoral (plural antipastorals)

  1. A work that eschews pastoral literary themes and conventions.

Forms of antipastoral

Adjective
comparativemore antipastoral
superlativemost antipastoral
Noun
pluralantipastorals

Origin of antipastoral

From anti- + pastoral.

Questions about antipastoral

What does antipastoral mean?
Antipastoral means eschewing pastoral literary themes and conventions.
What part of speech is antipastoral?
Antipastoral can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antipastoral in the dictionary

  1. antipassivizes
  2. antipassivizing
  3. antipasta
  4. antipasti
  5. antipasto
  6. antipastoral
  7. antipastorals
  8. antipastos
  9. antipatent
  10. Antipater
  11. antipaternal

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