Synonyms for urban
ˈɜr bənur·ban

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.1 / 7 votes

1. urbanadjective

   Antonyms:
   rural, bucolic

2. urbanadjective

   , rather rare in English.

   Antonyms:
   bucolic, rural

3. urbanadjective

   Antonyms:
   bucolic, rural

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 6 votes

1. urban

   Synonyms:
   accomplished, city-like, cultured, elegant, polished, polite, refined, urbane, well-bred

   Antonyms:
   agricultural, artless, awkward, boorish, bucolic, clownish, coarse, countrified, country, hoidenish, inelegant, outlandish, pastoral, plain, rude, rural, rustic, sylvan, uncouth, unpolished, unsophisticated, untaught, verdant

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urbanadjective

   relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area

   "urban sociology"; "urban development"

   Antonyms:
   folksy, pastoral, arcadian, bucolic, rustic, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, countrified, countryfied, campestral, hobnailed, country-style, rural, farming(a), cracker-barrel, country-bred, homespun

2. urbanadjective

   located in or characteristic of a city or city life

   "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners"

   Antonyms:
   agrestic, homespun, cracker-barrel, folksy, pastoral, arcadian, rustic, countryfied, countrified, agricultural, campestral, farming(a), country-style, agrarian, bucolic, hobnailed, rural, country-bred

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "urban":

   urbain, urbaine, cities, city, urbana, town, towns, urbano, urbaines, urbanized, municipal, urbains, miejskiej, miejskie, metropolitan, urban-based, urbanization

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1. Kamil Kaloush:

   The expansion of the built environment to accommodate population growth will continue to challenge our selection of materials and infrastructure design to mitigate the (urban heat island).

2. Crystal Wahpepah:

   When I was around 6 or 7 years old, I would go pick berries and I would actually see different berries but the kinds you wouldn't see when you're being raised in urban areas, that's when I put two and two together. We don't see our foods.

3. Neil Shah:

   They will have to go with physical distribution if they want to go beyond the urban consumers who are just buying online and the setting up of a local manufacturing facility would be a step in that direction.

4. Roland Kays:

   They are finding the urban areas that have little scraps of habitat that they can making a living in.

5. Khuda Buksh:

   Sensing the precarious scenario of household food insecurity, many male family members have already headed toward nearby urban areas in search of jobs to tackle the emerging situation.