provincial

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of PROVINCIAL

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country <the confidence man figured that fleecing these provincials would be easy>

Synonyms bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

Related Words boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf; greenhorn, tenderfoot; peasant, peon; backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms slicker, smoothy (or smoothie); metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

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