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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Bengtson guesses that many other films were shot in the vicinity too — one of the only citified corners in an early Hollywood that still mostly didn’t look urban.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2021
Produced by country music explorer Sturgill Simpson, “Country Squire” is full of lessons learned on the “country music highway” about camper retirement, citified country boys and the hard work of commitment.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019
Hoover’s men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019
The stranger reminds viewers that, in the West, “dude” is an insult—the naïve and citified dandy who’s a mere tourist or poseur in a place of rugged action and broken-in casualness.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2018
He looked so at home in that citified bar in his ranch outfit I thought he might well be somebody famous.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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