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countrified

[kuhn-truh-fahyd]

adjective

rustic or rural in appearance, conduct, etc.: a countrified person; a countrified area amid the suburbs.

not sophisticated or cosmopolitan; provincial.

Also, countryfied.

Origin:
1645–55; countrify + -ed²

Related forms

coun·tri·fied·ness, noun

un·coun·tri·fied, adjective

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verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

to make countrified.

Origin:
country + -fy

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countrified or countryfied (ˈkʌntrɪˌfaɪd)

—*adj*
	in the style, manners, etc, of the country; rural

countryfied or countryfied

—*adj*

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"In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less countrified do you find the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveler, and, to some extent, a man of the world; and, as the distances with which he is familiar are greater, so is his information more general and far reaching than the villager's. If I were to look for a narrow, uninformed, and countrified mind, as opposed to the intelligence and refinement which are thought to emanate from cities, it would be among the rusty inhabitants of an old-settled country, on farms all run out and gone to seed with life-everlasting, in the towns about Boston, even on the high-road in Concord, and not in the back woods of Maine."

-Henry David Thoreau

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