PASTORALIST Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

pastoralist

adjective

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Recent Examples of pastoralist In the northern reaches, thousands of pastoralist herders have switched to fishing after losing their livestock to drought since 2021. — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 31 May 2026 The resemblance is particularly striking because many Palestinians are now barred from practicing their pastoralist traditions in areas where settlers continue to roam freely. — Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026 The pastoralist Maasai people, for instance, who also live in the region, have successfully been vying for supremacy with lions for hundreds of years. — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026 As pastoralist communities moved their flocks, the sheep had more contact with infected wild animals. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025

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There are mental health resources, risk management programs, and chapter chaplains who provide real pastoral support.

— Todd Buchanan, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Engineer Tim Goldstone mixed the album in the English countryside, with the band hanging out in the pastoral setting of Ridge Farm Studio, where the Smiths had recorded Meat Is Murder.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of pastoral

Adjective

According to the court filing and statements from their families, both victims were working-class nationals of Trinidad and Tobago who frequently traveled to neighboring Venezuela for fishing and agricultural labor.

— Laura Romero, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
The exterior took its cues from agricultural structures Kirkpatrick had seen on his travels.

— Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of agricultural

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So was avoiding the easy version of a Connecticut show, one dominated by recent Yale MFAs or famous artists with country houses up north in the bucolic Litchfield hills.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026
This is the ultimate bucolic New England getaway for families, couples, and groups of friends.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of bucolic

Adjective

There is something wonderfully honest and pure about a farm and the agrarian life that is the heritage of many Americans.

— Jeffrey Dungan, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2026
The winery estate located at 4710 Flying Paster Lane was owned by Trebek for nine years and is known for its sustainable local agriculture and celebration of equestrian, ranch and agrarian lifestyles.

— Libbey Hanson, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of agrarian

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The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.

— J.J. Bailey, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026

Definition of monocultural

Adjective

Work on the 2025 vintage includes the use of Bouquet, a disease-resistant variety, a choice that is, allegedly, both agronomic and commercial.

— Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
An agronomic guide or a turf guide will provide the optimal mower height for your specific type of grass.

— Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026

Definition of agronomic

Adjective

Her parents had drained swamps in order to create arable land and served in the Haganah pre-state military organization.

— Natasha Mozgovaya, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Given China’s shrinking labor force and the effects of overproduction and climate change on its arable land, Beijing is likely to remain reliant on foreign food products in the coming years.

— Caitlin Welsh, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of arable

Adjective

Connecticut has also seen a boom in backyard growers popping up in suburban neighborhoods with micro-farming businesses becoming more popular.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026
Some of those people may be professional myrmecologists (scientists who specialize in the study of ants) and fourmiculture (ant-farming) enthusiasts.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026

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