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citified
adjective
sometimes disapprovinguk /ˈsɪt.i.faɪd/ us /ˈsɪt̬.i.faɪd/
typical or having become typical of large cities and the people who live in them:
No matter how citified we have become, we still have an atavistic urge to forage for food.
My parents disapproved of the type of citified small-towner who looks down on the place they grew up in.
They see this as an arrogant, citified government imposing rules on the countryside which it knows nothing about.
I'm an urban creature and I'm looking forward to finding a citified energy in Washington.
I became "citified" and stopped knowing or caring where my food came from.
Their citified shoes are soaked and filthy from tramping in the wilderness.
The restaurant is far too fancy and citified for the beach.
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anti-city
anti-urban
backwater
boom town
burgher
Cantabrigian
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civic
conurbation
garden city
multi-city
municipal
native place
non-municipal
open city
retirement community
small-town
smoke
urbanite
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