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. Arlene Anderson:

   We’re looking at a lot of different configurations, whether it’s rural, remote, or urban, it’s new for us; it’s exciting.

2. Republican Rep. Jason Lewis:

   What the welfare state has done to the black community, a hundred years of racism could not do, a hundred years of racism could not break it up, it could not destroy black families. Jim Crow could not do it. But what dependency has done, is has caused unwanted pregnancy, illegitimacy. It has told young black males that they are dispensable, they don't need to hang around when mom needs support or whatever and it has destroyed -- and not just black communities, but any urban community, and so what you've got here is now they're addicted. Large swaths of Hispanic communities, black communities are addicted to these, these subsidies.

3. Anna Hakkarainen:

   Only few people know that the mysterious north is as fascinating during summer and autumn, which tends to be our off-peak season, lapland is the antithesis to the urban hustle and bustle.

4. Response Peter Salama:

   If we see a town of that size infected with Ebola, then we are going to have a major urban outbreak, which is going to be a real challenge, once Ebola gets into urban areas, especially poor urban slums, it's extremely difficult to get rid of the disease.

5. Graeme Smith:

   Once they get inside an urban area, your air assets and artillery become much less useful.