provincial

  • (a) of or associated with a province
    • provincial government
  • (a) characteristic of the provinces or their people
    • deeply provincial and conformist
    • in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial
    • narrow provincial attitudes

Nouns

  • (n) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
    • the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials
  • (n) a country person bucolic, peasant,

Synonyms

bucolic peasant

Antonyms

cosmopolitan

Words of close approximity

provincial capital provincialism provincially