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Synonyms for provincial
prəˈvɪn ʃəlpro·vin·cial
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
provincial
Synonyms:
appendant, annexed, outlying, rural, countrified, rustic, bucolicAntonyms:
central, metropolitan, modish, fashionable, courtly
Princeton's WordNet
provincialnoun
(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"
Antonyms:
travelled, cosmopolitan, traveledpeasant, provincial, bucolicadjective
a country person
Synonyms:
bucolic, peasant, churl, idyll, barbarian, tyke, idyl, boor, tike, eclogueAntonyms:
cosmopolitan, travelled, traveledprovincialadjective
of or associated with a province
"provincial government"
Antonyms:
cosmopolitan, travelled, traveledprovincialadjective
characteristic of the provinces or their people
"deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
Antonyms:
travelled, traveled, cosmopolitan
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
provincialadjective
Synonyms:
of a province, of provincesprovincialadjective
Synonyms:
rude, unpolished, unrefined, rustic, countrified
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "provincial":
province, provinces, provincially, provinciale, province-wide, provincial-level, province-based, provinciales, boycott, governorate, al-muqataa, prov, province-level, governorates, regional
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1037 | regional | |
#2561 | rural | |
#3617 | province | |
#6618 | provincial | |
#8679 | provinces | |
#15519 | rustic | |
#16272 | boycott | |
#19142 | outlying | |
#19794 | prov | |
#21682 | peasant | |
#26177 | barbarian | |
#30011 | annexed | |
#83754 | boor | |
#85784 | governorate | |
#86239 | provincially | |
#89481 | idyll | |
#98129 | bucolic | |
#103046 | tyke | |
#111077 | governorates | |
#118652 | tike | |
#130115 | provinciale | |
#245417 | countrified | |
#253593 | churl | |
#274861 | provinciales |
How to use provincial in a sentence?
We're watching it closely and there is concern about Uruzgan, we don't think either the province of Uruzgan or the provincial capital Tarin Kowt is about to fall but we're watching it closely.
The success of the Afghan operations around the country, supported by Resolute Support and U.S. forces, have caused the enemy high casualties everywhere. This has caused them to stop their attempts to seize provincial capitals, to stop trying to cease districts.
All women working in government are in great danger. And the situation is especially bad for provincial council members.
We hope the oil companies will stop contaminating the Patagonian ecosystem with toxic waste and will close this dump that violates provincial and national laws.
The fact of the matter is had The President decided to keep forces in Afghanistan beyond May 1 attacks would have resumed on our forces. The Taliban had not been attacking our forces or NATO during the period from which the agreement was reached to May 1, the offensive Antony Blinken are seeing across the country now to take the provincial capitals would have commenced. We would have been back at war with The Taliban.
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