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countryish

countryish adjective: having characteristics of country music.

Adjective

countryish (comparative more countryish, superlative most countryish)

  1. Having characteristics of country music.
    • Harvard's WHRB (FM 95.3) has everything from the punk-rocky “Record Hospital” at night to the country-ish “Hillbilly At Harvard” on Saturday mornings.1998 January 24, “Boston: Vital Statistics (The Billboard Spotlight)”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 4, →ISSN, page 52
    • In “Beach Baby,” a countryish waltz, and “Babys,” a ballad with an itchy piano underlay, Mr. Vernon conjures thoughts of summertime from a distance.2009 January 18, Nate Chinen, “Sonic Adventures, From a Cappella to Zydeco”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    countrylike

Synonyms of countryish

Forms of countryish

comparativemore countryish
superlativemost countryish

Origin of countryish

From country + -ish.

Questions about countryish

What does countryish mean?
Countryish means having characteristics of country music.
What part of speech is countryish?
Countryish is an adjective.

Words near countryish in the dictionary

  1. countryfy
  2. countryfying
  3. countryhood
  4. countryhuman
  5. countryhumans
  6. countryish
  7. countryless
  8. countrylessness
  9. countrylike
  10. countrymade
  11. countryman

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