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

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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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1. Graeme Smith:

   It is certainly the first major breach of a provincial capital since 2001, they are choking the Afghan forces from all sides. It looks pretty grim.

2. Ned Franks:

   Without the support of the provincial government it would certainly cause far more outrage than useful results.

3. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

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. Mike Pompeo:

   But when the Taliban pushed us, we crushed them, when you set a date certain, and they push on you and you withdraw, inch by inch, yard by yard, this didn't just happen in 11 days-- that's the myth the Biden administration tells. This wasn't 11 days, this was weeks and weeks and weeks of the Taliban advancing on provincial capitals all across the country.