countrified

American  

[kuhn-truh-fahyd] / ˈkʌn trəˌfaɪd /

adjective

1. rustic or rural in appearance, conduct, etc..

   a countrified person; a countrified area amid the suburbs.

2. not sophisticated or cosmopolitan; provincial.

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countrified British  

/ ˈkʌntrɪˌfaɪd /

adjective

1. in the style, manners, etc, of the country; rural

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• uncountrified
  adjective
• countrifiedness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of countrified

First recorded in 1645–55; countrify + -ed ²

Example Sentences

But in “Shucked,” the hilarious countrified musical that brought “Hee Haw”-style comedy in a modern guise to Broadway, corn finally gets top billing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

After opening with a tender “Doin’ This” — the lead single off his forthcoming “Growin’ Up” LP, arriving later this month — Combs unleashed his crunchy, countrified head banger “Cold as You.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2022

Beyoncé famously mused “If I Were a Boy”; Miranda Lambert is now giving a similar song-length thought exercise a countrified twist.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

When she's on it's a slightly different matter, especially when Paige gives a routine her acrobatic best only to have a countrified customer tell her she reminds him of Whoopi Goldberg.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2021

But she told me later she had seen countrified members of the Little family come up from Georgia in even worse shape than I was.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey