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neopastoral

neopastoral adjective: being or relating to a new or modern form of pastoral.

Adjective

neopastoral (comparative more neopastoral, superlative most neopastoral)

  1. Being or relating to a new or modern form of pastoral.
    • But while the traditional pastoral ideal is foreclosed, a neopastoral appeal is beginning to sound, whereby the logic of the via media is, mutatis mutandis, translated across time and space into the terrain of contemporary America.2003, Andrew McMurry, Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, & the Systems of Nature, page 206

Forms of neopastoral

comparativemore neopastoral
superlativemost neopastoral

Origin of neopastoral

From neo- + pastoral.

Words formed from neopastoral

Questions about neopastoral

What does neopastoral mean?
Neopastoral means being or relating to a new or modern form of pastoral.
What part of speech is neopastoral?
Neopastoral is an adjective.

Words near neopastoral in the dictionary

  1. neopallium
  2. Neopanamax
  3. Neopangaea
  4. Neopangea
  5. neopantheism
  6. neopastoral
  7. neopastoralism
  8. neopastoralist
  9. neopastoralists
  10. neopathic
  11. neopathies

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