adjective
Etymology
Origin of citified
Explanation
If you're citified, you're comfortable and familiar with being in a city. When your cousin travels from North Dakota to visit you in Chicago, she might take one look at you and declare you totally citified. The adjective citified is often used as a put-down, a way to criticize someone for being too much a city person. If your expertise includes hailing cabs and dodging pedestrians on the sidewalk, your attempts to master cattle ranching or piloting a lobster boat might inspire the locals to call you citified. A more complimentary word to use would be urbane, which describes someone who's an elegant and refined city person.
Vocabulary lists containing citified
My Side of the Mountain
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A Long Way from Chicago
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Butterfly Yellow
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Example Sentences
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Citified publishers and record companies�realizing that in the wide-open spaces of the U.S. a good barnyard ballad can outsell a bistro blues every time�have been making tracks to the source.
From Time Magazine Archive
An' de' Onerble Mr. Citified done closed de morgans on us!
From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
An' like as not de 'Onerble Mr. Citified 'll shoo ole Muffly orf de nes' an' spile de whole sett'n'.
From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
An' is de 'Onerble Mr. Citified buyed it, baby?
From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
Citified or countrified, I couldn't help admiring his strength of principle which stood firm in the midst of temptation and would not yield to the blandishments of the hour.
From Sowing and Reaping by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
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