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provincial
narrow-minded or unsophisticated because of limited experience
Synonyms
Antonyms
- cosmopolitan
- worldly
- broad-minded
provincial in a sentence
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.
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.
Read it in context
- The Authority No Chart Showed Social Science
Practice provincial in the app