Synonyms for provincial
prəˈvɪn ʃəlpro·vin·cial

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1. provincial

   Synonyms:
   appendant, annexed, outlying, rural, countrified, rustic, bucolic

   Antonyms:
   central, metropolitan, modish, fashionable, courtly

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1. 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"

   Synonyms:
   peasant, bucolic

   Antonyms:
   travelled, cosmopolitan, traveled

2. peasant, provincial, bucolicadjective

   a country person

   Synonyms:
   bucolic, peasant, churl, idyll, barbarian, tyke, idyl, boor, tike, eclogue

   Antonyms:
   cosmopolitan, travelled, traveled

3. provincialadjective

   of or associated with a province

   "provincial government"

   Antonyms:
   cosmopolitan, travelled, traveled

4. provincialadjective

   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

Matched Categories

1. • Roman Catholic
   • Official

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1. provincialadjective

   Synonyms:
   of a province, of provinces

2. provincialadjective

   Synonyms:
   rude, unpolished, unrefined, rustic, countrified

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1. 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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How to use provincial in a sentence?

1. Charles Cleveland:

   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.

2. John Nicholson:

   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.

3. Muhtarama Amin:

   All women working in government are in great danger. And the situation is especially bad for provincial council members.

4. Leonel Mingo:

   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.

5. Antony Blinken:

   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.