PROVINCIAL


Meaning of PROVINCIAL in English

I. noun

Synonyms: rustic , ||backwoodser, backwoodsman, bucolic, bumpkin, clown, hayseed, hick, jake, peasant

II. adjective

1.

Synonyms: rural , agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, country, out-country, outland, pastoral, rustic

2.

Synonyms: insular , local, ||parish-pump, parochial, sectarian, small-town

Related Word: bigoted, hidebound

Contrasted words: cosmic, universal; progressive

Antonyms: catholic

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