Word Meanings - OUTLYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OUTLYING)

• Provincial
• Appendant
• annexed
• outlying
• rural
• countrified
• rustic
• bucolic

Related words: (words related to OUTLYING)

• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• RURALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• OUTLYING
  Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• RURALIZE
  To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• RURAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak. 2. Of
• ANNEXATIONIST
  One who favors annexation.
• COUNTRIFIED
  Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude. As being one who took no pride, And was a deal too countrified. Lloyd.
• ANNEXIONIST
  An annexationist.
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• PROVINCIALITY
  The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton.
• RUSTICATED
  resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
• PROVINCIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. 2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified;
• APPENDANT
  Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor,
• RUSTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth. 2. Rude; awkward; rough;
• PROVINCIALIZE
  To render provincial. M. Arnold.
• EQUICRURAL
  Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
• BICRURAL
  Having two legs. Hooker.
• COMPROVINCIAL
  Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. -- n.
• REANNEXATION
  Act of reannexing.
• COANNEX
  To annex with something else.