Provincial

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
 * 2) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
 * 3) * Thomas Babington Macaulay,
 * Provincial airs and graces.
 * 1) Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
 * 2) * Ayliffe,
 * Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
 * 2) * William Shakespeare,
 * With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
 * 1) limited in outlook; narrow

Noun

 * 1) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
 * 2) (Roman Catholic Church): A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
 * 3) A country bumpkin.

Adjectives for Provincial
uncouth; remote; daring; simple; single-minded; hopeless; ignorant; narrow. adverbs narrowly; utterly; hopelessly; boorishly; coarsely; bluntly; brusquely; remarkably; naturally; undisguisedly; illiberally; stupidly; credulously; awkardly; outlandishly; bashfully; self-consciously; strikingly; noticeably; unexpectedly; obviously; markedly.

Thesaurus
Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, authoritarian, awkward, backwoods, backwoodsman, beg, beglerbeg, bey, bigot, bigoted, boorish, borne, bucolic, bumpkin, burgrave, campestral, cloddish, closed, clown, collector, confined, constricted, countrified, country, country bumpkin, country cousin, countryman, countrywoman, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, dey, dialect, dialectal, eparch, exarch, fanatical, farm, fellah, gauleiter, geographically limited, governor, governor-general, hayseed, hick, hidebound, hind, homespun, idiomatic, illiberal, ingenuous, innocent, insular, khedive, lieutenant governor, limited, little, little-minded, local, localized, loutish, lowland, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, muzhik, nabob, naive, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nawab, nearsighted, oafish, of a place, outland, palatine, parochial, pastoral, peasant, peon, petty, proconsul, purblind, regional, rude, rural, rustic, satrap, sectarian, shortsighted, small, small-minded, small-town, stadtholder, straitlaced, stuffy, subahdar, tetrarch, topical, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncultivated, uncultured, ungenerous, ungraceful, uninformed, unliberal, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, upland, vali, vernacular, vice-king, viceroy, wali, yokel

Etymology
From provincialis:, confer Provencal:.

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * German: provinziell, provinzial


 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: provinik, plovinik

Related terms

 * province
 * provincialement
 * provincialisme

Adjective

 * 1) provincial