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yokel

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of yokel

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 of yokel

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

Words Related to yokel

boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf

greenhorn, tenderfoot

backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms of yokel

slicker, smoothy (or smoothie)

metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms of yokel

cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

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