provincial

Meanings

Noun

• (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"
• a country person

Adjective

• of or associated with a province
  • "provincial government"
• characteristic of the provinces or their people
  • "deeply provincial and conformist"
  • "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"
  • "narrow provincial attitudes"

Synonyms

bucolic, peasant

Antonyms

cosmopolitan