idyllic

UK/ɪˈdɪlɪk/US/aɪˈdɪlɪk/

adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,901 of 15,258neutral

Idyllic means peaceful and perfectly lovely. An idyllic setting, an idyllic childhood, idyllic weather.

It is nearly always used of places and of the past, since an idyllic childhood is one recalled rather than lived. The word comes from the idyll, a short poem about country life.

Definitions of idyllic

1adjectiveidyllicPeaceful and perfectly lovely.C1
“They spent an idyllic week in a cottage by a quiet lake.”

idyllic is a quality.

Where it comes from

From idyll + -ic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

idyllic in the wild

In Greek mythology, Thalia, also spelled Thaleia, was one of the Muses, the goddess who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry.
Thalia (Muse)
The capital, San Pablo, is at 1,900 m above sea level, and has an idyllic climate.
Valera District
Ezhikkara is famous for its Pokkali (a type of rice) fields, prawn farms and idyllic backwaters.
Ezhikkara
For instance, the flute in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is a recurrent sound motif that conveys rural and idyllic notions.
Motif (narrative)
Eugenio Zampighi was an Italian genre painter and photographer who mainly depicted joyous and idyllic images of Italian rural life, devoid of any hint of social criticism.
List of works by Eugenio Zampighi

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