provincial vs simple

provincial

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

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • 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. 

simple

adj
  • Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank. 

  • Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound. 

  • Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded. 

  • Without ornamentation; plain. 

  • Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward. 

  • Of a group: having no normal subgroup. 

  • Homogenous. 

  • Feeble-minded; foolish. 

  • Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. 

  • Not compound, but possibly lobed. 

  • Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added. 

noun
  • Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. 

  • A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. 

  • A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. 

  • A drawloom. 

  • A simple or atomic proposition. 

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