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. Maria Fantappie:

   Falluja has more of an urban structure where tribes are present but are less a structuring element of the city, so it's going to be much harder to retake and keep the city under control.

2. Sara Bode:

   I really worry that prolonged closures are going to have a huge detriment, …Kids that are most likely affected first are kids that attend more large, urban school districts, as an example, which are also often families that come from a lower socioeconomic status and may have had some challenges with remote learning, and so we're just widening the gap.

3. 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.

4. Anuj Maheshwari:

   Investor interest in urban agriculture is rising as environmental pressures and technology developments catalyze new ways of producing food locally.

5. Barack Obama:

   I’m under no illusion that out of this Congress we’re going to get massive investment in urban communities.