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provincial

(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"

characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"

of or associated with a province; "provincial government"

Synonyms:

• Arcadian,
• agrarian,
• agrestic,
• agricultural,
• authoritarian,
• awkward,
• backwoods,
• backwoodsman,
• beg,
• beglerbeg,
• bey,
• bigot,
• bigoted,
• boorish,
• borne,
• bucolic,
• bumpkin,
• burgrave,
• campestral,
• cloddish,
• closed,
• clown,
• collector,
• confined,
• constricted,
• countrified,
• country,
• country bumpkin,
• country cousin,
• countryman,
• countrywoman,
• cramped,
• creedbound,
• deaf,
• deaf to reason,
• dey,
• dialect,
• dialectal,
• eparch,
• exarch,
• fanatical,
• farm,
• fellah,
• gauleiter,
• geographically limited,
• governor,
• governor-general,
• hayseed,
• hick,
• hidebound,
• hind,
• homespun,
• idiomatic,
• illiberal,
• ingenuous,
• innocent,
• insular,
• khedive,
• lieutenant governor,
• limited,
• little,
• little-minded,
• local,
• localized,
• loutish,
• lowland,
• mean,
• mean-minded,
• mean-spirited,
• muzhik,
• nabob,
• naive,
• narrow,
• narrow-hearted,
• narrow-minded,
• narrow-souled,
• narrow-spirited,
• nawab,
• nearsighted,
• oafish,
• of a place,
• outland,
• palatine,
• parochial,
• pastoral,
• peasant,
• peon,
• petty,
• proconsul,
• purblind,
• regional,
• rude,
• rural,
• rustic,
• satrap,
• sectarian,
• shortsighted,
• small,
• small-minded,
• small-town,
• stadtholder,
• straitlaced,
• stuffy,
• subahdar,
• tetrarch,
• topical,
• uncatholic,
• uncharitable,
• uncultivated,
• uncultured,
• ungenerous,
• ungraceful,
• uninformed,
• unliberal,
• unpolished,
• unrefined,
• unsophisticated,
• upland,
• vali,
• vernacular,
• vice-king,
• viceroy,
• wali,
• yokel