provincial

/pruh-VIN-shul/adjective

narrow-minded; of a province or region

The critics dismissed the fair as provincial.
Synonyms
parochial, insular, unsophisticated
Antonyms
cosmopolitan, worldly
Memory hook
province-bound in outlook.

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