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provincial
Meaning: narrow-minded or unsophisticated because of limited experience
provincial in a sentence
How provincial is used in real sentences:
The novel exposes the provincial attitudes of a town suspicious of outsiders.
The columnist's provincial assumptions ignored how people lived beyond her small community.
“Executives initially dismissed this network as provincial, assuming that seasoned workers resisted any method invented beyond their town.”
— from the passage The Authority No Chart Showed
Synonyms for provincial
Other words for provincial — parochial, insular and narrow-minded — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of provincial
Words that mean the opposite of provincial:
- cosmopolitan
- worldly
- broad-minded
Where it comes from
From Latin provincia, meaning 'territory outside Rome.'
Memory hook
PROVINCIAL contains PROVINCE: seeing only your own province suggests a limited outlook.
Practice provincial in the app