provincial vs rigid

provincial

adj
  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

noun
  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

  • 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. 

rigid

adj
  • Rigorous and unbending. 

  • Stiff, rather than flexible. 

  • Fixed, rather than moving. 

  • Uncompromising. 

noun
  • An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship. 

  • A bicycle with no suspension system. 

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