idyllic

From idyll +‎ -ic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈdɪlɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /aɪˈdɪlɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪk

idyllic (comparative more idyllic, superlative most idyllic)

1. Of or pertaining to idylls.
2. Extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.
   • 1896, H. G. Wells, “chapter 17”, in The Island of Dr. Moreau:

     My fellow-creatures, from whom I was thus separated, began to assume idyllic virtue and beauty in my memory.

   • 1922, John Buchan, “chapter II”, in Huntingtower:

     The rest of the road was as idyllic as the start.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:

     I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.

idyllic (plural idyllics)

1. An idyllic state or situation. (A substantive use of the adjective)
   • 1922, John Buchan, chapter V, in Huntingtower:

     He could retire to the idyllic with the knowledge that he had not been wanting when Romance called.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “idyllic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “idyllic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.