backwoodsy

adjective

Definition of backwoodsynext
as in backwoods

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  1. backwoods
  2. rural
  3. provincial
  4. countrified
  5. bucolic
Adjective
  • Frances Quinlan Quinlan had planned to celebrate her 34th birthday in a backwoods cabin this week, before a Friday show in Ohio.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2020
  • The potholes are worth it, however, for the great weekend of backwoods hiking and exploring .
    Stef Schrader, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2020
Definition of backwoods
Adjective
  • This satellite will provide broadband internet and communications capability for public use facilities in Indonesia’s rural regions.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
  • In another, Kevin Killian is a curmudgeonly old man living in rural New York with a pet chimpanzee named Chester who writes the novels attributed to Kevin Killian.
    Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of rural
Adjective
  • That year, an ensemble of forty-nine players performed the world premiere of his Fourth Symphony in the German provincial city of Meiningen.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The city held the top spot on a real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities on Sunday after recording its highest-ever pollution reading of 1900 near the Pakistan-India border on Saturday, based on data released by the provincial government and Swiss group IQAir.
    Reuters, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of provincial
Adjective
  • In the rendition, recorded live at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Beabadoobee recasts Carpenter’s acerbic pop-rock hit into something gentler, with a slightly countrified, acoustic-guitar-and-strings arrangement — almost how the Corrs would’ve done it.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
  • God Save the Animals contains guitar solos, gothic keyboard riffs, spare and off-key acoustic guitar, warbles, countrified fiddle, at least one very thoughtful love song, and (don’t worry) enough moments that sound like Built to Spill.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of countrified
Adjective
  • The shift from an office with rising music to a bucolic scene with only ambient noise (and a decidedly unbucolic conversation) is subtly unsettling.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The film begins in bucolic enough fashion, with a close-up of a baby crib mobile that might suggest peaceful nights and mornings in which a child is lulled into serenity.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of bucolic
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