Synonyms of agrarian

agrarian

adjective

ə-ˈgrer-ē-ən 

as in agricultural

engaged in or concerned with agriculture

an agrarian community

the nation's agrarian history

Synonyms & Similar Words

• agricultural
• farming
• rural
• agronomic
• bucolic
• monocultural
• arable
• pastoral
• country
• georgic
• aquacultural
• pastoralist
• garden
• rustical
• rustic
• arboricultural
• villatic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• urban
• industrial
• metropolitan
• nonagricultural
• industrialized
• metro

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of agrarian

At the time, the island was still an agrarian place, where farmers tended rice paddies and raised water buffalos, but the possibility of war was manifest in the landscape. —Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025

The Federalists dreamed of a commercial colossus rivaling the empires of Europe, whereas the Republicans imagined a simple, agrarian republic of yeoman farmers defended by citizen militias, with no need for a federal military academy. —Ryan Shaw / Made By History, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025

His dollies through agrarian acres are not meant to drum up suspense. —Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025

Climatic volatility, agricultural uncertainty, and the formation, consolidation and breakdown of preindustrial agrarian states Sumerian Literature. —Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025

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