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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | countrified; limited |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, bucolic, country, hidebound, homegrown, homespun, insular, inward-looking, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, small-town, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated |
| Antonyms: | citified, liberal, metropolitan, modern |
| Main Entry: | churl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rude and ill-bred, a boor; person overly concerned with saving money |
| Synonyms: | beast, chuff, clodhopper, miser, mucker, niggard, oaf, peasant, provincial, rustic, tightwad, yokel |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural, pastoral |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, georgic, homey, out-country, outland, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, urban |
| Main Entry: | insular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, circumscribed, closed, confined, contracted, cut off, detached, illiberal, inward-looking, isolated, limited, narrow, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, restricted, secluded, separate, separated, sequestered |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, unbiased, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded |
| Synonyms: | base, bigoted, cheap, contemptible, hidebound, illiberal, ineffectual, limited, mean, narrow, paltry, petty, provincial, self-centered, selfish, set, small, small-minded, vulgar, wicked |
| Antonyms: | magnanimous, open, open-minded |
| Main Entry: | local |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of a community, restricted to immediate area |
| Synonyms: | bounded, civic, confined, district, divisional, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, small-town, territorial, town, vernacular |
| Antonyms: | foreign, nonnative |
| Main Entry: | narrow-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | biased, intolerant |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, insular, narrow, opinionated, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, reactionary, short-sighted, small-minded, strait-laced, unenlarged |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, unbiased |
| Main Entry: | natural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open, unaffected |
| Synonyms: | artless, being oneself, candid, childlike, credulous, direct, easy, folksy, forthright, frank, genuine, homey, ignorant, impulsive, inartificial, ingenuous, innocent, instinctive, laid-back*, naive, plain, primitive, provincial, real, rustic, simple, simplehearted, sincere, spontaneous, straightforward, trusting, unassumed, uncontrived, undesigning, unembarrassed, unfeigned, unforced, unlabored, unpolished, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly, up-front |
| Antonyms: | affected, artificial, pretended, unnatural |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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