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. San Diego Supervisor Greg Cox:

   I admire The US and the work that The US's been doing but I think the standard The US set last week, to not allow businesses to reopen unless the counties have gone two weeks without any deaths, is unrealistic in any urban county, we certainly want to work with The US in a cooperative vein but we need to have standards that are attainable.

2. Fox News:

   This is like the Biden-Harris commandment that everybody regardless of state or rural, suburban, urban, regardless of setting has to wear a mask when in public.

3. Jessica Vaughan:

   We found that they were active in 22 states just in the last few years and concentrated in those areas that experienced a lot of illegal arrivals from Central America, it’s urban, it’s rural as well in some places that have never had this kind of a gang presence before and it’s difficult for them.

4. Mike Apicello:

   What people don't realize is while they're setting off fireworks and sparklers in hot, dry heat or wind, that fires can move very quickly, putting their neighborhood directly in threat, look for open, wide spaces to ignite fireworks, and stay away from fire fuels such as grass, which in this type of heat, cure out really fast. And with the high winds, all it takes is an ignition, even in an urban environment. A bottle rocket on a shake roof would ignite a fire very rapidly.

5. Dan Penny:

   Our study suggests the inhabitants didnt leave Angkor because the infrastructure failed, rather the infrastructure failed (or was not maintained or repaired) because the urban elite had already left.