provincial | Definition of provincial

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 of provincial

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

Words Related to provincial

boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf

greenhorn, tenderfoot

backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms of provincial

slicker, smoothy (or smoothie)

metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms of provincial

cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate