Synonyms of yokel

yokel

noun

as in hick

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country

a lame comedy about the misadventures of yokels in the big city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hick
• peasant
• hayseed
• bumpkin
• provincial
• rube
• clown
• rustic
• mountaineer
• countryman
• clodhopper
• cornball
• churl
• boor
• tenderfoot
• greenhorn
• oaf
• chawbacon
• gawk
• lout
• peon
• backwoodsman
• clod

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cosmopolitan
• sophisticate
• cosmopolite
• slicker
• smoothie
• metropolitan
• suburbanite
• urbanite
• smoothy

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