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hick

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hick

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

city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks

Synonyms of hick

bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

Words Related to hick

boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf

greenhorn, tenderfoot

backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms of hick

slicker, smoothy (or smoothie)

metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms of hick

cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

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