Synonyms of cornball

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adjective

as in rustical

tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated

the show's shamelessly cornball jokes appealed to small-town America

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rustical
• hokey
• rustic
• corny
• corn-fed
• cornpone
• folksy
• down-home
• countrified
• countryfied
• hick
• hickish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sophisticated
• worldly
• smart
• with-it
• cosmopolitan
• hip
• worldly-wise
• trendy

cornball

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noun

ˈkȯrn-ˌbȯl 

as in hick

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country

a movie about a cornball making his way through a world of cynical sophisticates

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hick
• clown
• rube
• hayseed
• rustic
• bumpkin
• provincial
• peasant
• yokel
• mountaineer
• clodhopper
• countryman
• boor
• churl
• chawbacon
• greenhorn
• lout
• gawk
• oaf
• tenderfoot
• peon
• clod
• backwoodsman

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cosmopolitan
• sophisticate
• cosmopolite
• slicker
• smoothie
• metropolitan
• suburbanite
• urbanite
• smoothy

Examples of cornball in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Soderbergh keeps cutting around the cornball potential of the material. —A.a. Dowd, Chron, 7 Feb. 2023

Seemingly the only non-conservative included in the bit was Shri Thanedar, a Democrat and state representative from Michigan, who appeared in a cornball commercial featuring people demonstrating mind-bendingly bad acting. —oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2022

Noun

Meanwhile, customers grew to know him for his hospitable eccentricity and his cheerful cornball ads. —oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023

There were times when life on the Slip must have felt like the kind of cornball bio-pic in which someone famous pops up every thirty seconds. —Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023