Synonyms of the word provincial


PROVINCIALBUCOLIC - BUMPKINLY - CORN-FED - FUNCTIONARY - HICK - INSULAR - JERKWATER - OFFICIAL - PAROCHIAL - PEASANT - POKEY - POKY - RUSTIC - STAY-AT-HOME - UNSOPHISTICATED

provincial

  • adj. Of or pertaining to a province.
  • adj. Constituting a province.
  • adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  • adj. Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
  • adj. Limited in outlook; narrow.
  • n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all…
  • n. A country bumpkin.

bucolic

  • adj. Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
  • adj. Relating to the pleasant aspects of rustic country life.
  • adj. Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.
  • n. A pastoral poem.
  • n. A rustic, peasant.

bumpkinly

  • adj. Befitting a bumpkin.

corn-fed

  • adj. Alternative spelling of cornfed.

functionary

  • n. A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited…
  • n. A paper-pusher, bean counter.

hick

  • n. (pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
  • v. to hiccup.

insular

  • adj. Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
  • adj. Situated on an island.
  • adj. Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little interaction with external parties; provincial.
  • adj. Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
  • adj. Relating to the insula in the brain.
  • n. An islander.

jerkwater

  • n. (US, historical) A train on a branch line.
  • adj. (US, colloquial, pejorative) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward.

official

  • adj. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
  • adj. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue…
  • adj. Approved by authority; authorized.
  • adj. sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
  • adj. Discharging an office or function.
  • adj. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
  • adj. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the…
  • adj. True, real, beyond doubt.
  • n. An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
  • n. A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

parochial

  • adj. Pertaining to a parish.
  • adj. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary…

peasant

  • n. A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers,…
  • n. A country person.
  • n. (pejorative) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
  • n. (strategy games) A worker unit.

pokey

  • adj. (of a room, house) of small volume, cramped.
  • adj. (slang) slow.
  • adj. (slang, of a car) fast.
  • n. (slang, with "the") prison.

poky

  • n. A gambling device based on the card game poker.
  • adj. Slow.
  • adj. (of a room or other enclosed space) Small and cramped.
  • n. (slang) Jail.

rustic

  • adj. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
  • adj. Unfinished or roughly finished.
  • adj. Crude, rough.
  • adj. Simple; artless; unaffected.
  • n. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.

stay-at-home

  • adj. (of a parent) Not employed, and rather devoting more time to one's children.

unsophisticated

  • adj. Not sophisticated; lacking sophistication.

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