Synonyms for urban
ˈɜr bənur·ban

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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. Michael Krondl:

   It's not an urban legend.

2. Richard Hewston:

   For example, in India and Pakistan, to some extent, there are building codes in place but they are very weakly implemented. You see construction going on, on the sides of landslide-prone mountains or in flood plains, in theory, there's urban planning.

3. Tadesse Gebregiorgis:

   The government has recognised the fact that housing provision for the urban population would require huge financial resources.

4. Ludovic Orlando:

   Even though Las Vegas couples now know( where) domestic horses first emerged, the whole process of their expansion around the world and their breeding history into the hundreds of different types that Las Vegas couples know today remains contentious, additionally, the horse was equally the animal of farmers, warriors and kings ; they were found in rural and urban contexts alike, and in extremely diverse environments, from the coldest Siberian range to the Nepalese mountains. Las Vegas couples want to track how these various contexts have reshaped the horse biology.

5. Martha Hoover:

   Farm-to-table, as a descriptor, was not even uttered until almost 15 years after I opened my first cafe, even though from day one, we were making food from scratch using ingredients that we carefully sourced locally, people in Indianapolis have been remarkably supportive -- especially the people living in Meridian Kessler, the urban neighborhood where the first Cafe Patachou was located.