Synonyms: peasant, provincial, bucolic
Definition: a country person
Similar words: rustic
Definition: an unsophisticated country person
Synonyms: provincial
Definition: (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
Usage: the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials
Similar words: official, functionary
Definition: a worker who holds or is invested with an office
Synonyms: provincial
Definition: characteristic of the provinces or their people
Usage: deeply provincial and conformist; in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial; narrow provincial attitudes
Similar words: unsophisticated, rustic, hick, bumpkinly
Definition: awkwardly simple and provincial
Usage: bumpkinly country boys; rustic farmers; a hick town; the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
Similar words: corn-fed
Definition: strong and healthy but not sophisticated
Similar words: parochial, insular
Definition: narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
Usage: little sympathy with parochial mentality; insular attitudes toward foreigners
Similar words: pokey, poky, one-horse, jerkwater
Definition: small and remote and insignificant
Usage: a jerkwater college; passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
Similar words: stay-at-home
Definition: not given to travel
Usage: a stay-at-home friend