idyllic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   extremely peaceful, happy, or beautiful, with no apparent problems

   They spent an idyllic week in a quiet cottage by the lake.

2. 2
   adj

   resembling an idyll, especially through an idealized picture of rural life

   The painting presents an idyllic vision of shepherds resting in green fields.

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Formed from idyll + -ic. Idyll came through Latin idyllium from Greek eidyllion, 'little form or short descriptive poem.' Because such poems often portrayed peaceful rural scenes, idyllic came to mean serenely beautiful or ideally happy.

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