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

An unlikely guest appearance during the set: Paris Hilton, who popped out to play a round of cornhole as the veteran indie-rock band did a countrified take on its “Married in a Gold Rush.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

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

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

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