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

• countrifiedness
  noun
• uncountrified
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of countrified

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

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Example Sentences

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countrified

On the countrified folk-pop song “Haunted,” she’s on an airplane thinking about her restless life and sings, “I’ll see the sky in the ocean / A couple ibuprofen,” mixing wonder with the mundane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

“Before I could almost recognize who it was, he was singing” — she lowered her voice in a countrified croon — ‘Once a daaay/All day looong.’

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 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

The stores had a countrified look; there were harnesses and sacks of feed in half of the display windows.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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