countrified
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˈkʌntrɪfaɪd/
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campestre
- The restaurant's decor is very countrified, featuring rustic furniture and handmade crafts.
- countrified way
- more countrified
Examples
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At times, he played the chicken farmer, cute and countrified, eliciting coos of delight from an adoring audience.
Blog text (6) -
An album soon followed, Inside Your Guitar, and the rockier elements were honed down to a gentle, somewhat countrified rock.
Blog text (1) -
We were a part of New York City, but we were more countrified.
Blog text (24) -
"Well, why not make it really countrified and seasonal?"
Fiction book (1990) -
Each worth three million dollars and more, and yet they looked like ordinary countrified shacks.
Fiction book (1990) -
Now we're getting countrified.
Fiction book (2000) -
It seems like they must think that if they can get a girl like Brenda Sue, then they won't have to feel so ashamed about being so countrified.
Fiction book (1992) -
Marcia followed Kaye's car out of the town's old center, onto a road with a little mall of newer stores, into the hillier, wealthier, more countrified expanses where Jimmy's parents had always lived.
Fiction book (1999) -
This charming cottage has a countrified style with wooden beams and floral patterns.
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She prefers a countrified lifestyle, enjoying gardening and long walks in nature.
Synonyms
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2.5
Of the countryside rather than the city, often near farms and open land
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5.2
Having a simple, rough style like the countryside
Having simple country style like small farms and plain homes
Antonyms
How Rural
Surface Forms
Morphology
countrified = countrify (transparent) = country + fy + ed
The verb 'countrify' (country + -fy) is a regular, productive formation and adding '-ed' yields the adjective meaning 'made/made to be like the country'.
Etymology
The word countrified comes from country meaning 'the countryside' and the ending -fied meaning 'made'. So it means 'made to be like the country', which is why countrified describes a simple, cozy rural style.