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inlandish

inlandish adjective: relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native.

Adjective

inlandish (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native.
    • Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea
    • So also let every one who is cognizant or perpetrator, where an outlandish man injures an inlandish one, clear himself of that privity, according to the value of the property; […]1840, Benjamin Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England
  2. (rare) Characteristic of one who is native or native-born; inexperienced, naïve, simplistic, unrefined.
    • A rap is literally inlandish (the product of barbarians born within the gates), a scatological scat-singing, the agonistic display of an uncomplicatedly emoting mammal.2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, page 179
    • TALESPINNER, MILKO was in awe because he could tell some really outlandish, or maybe inlandish, tales himself. But, he had never heard such tales.2001, Bradley M. Fralick, Through My Head: Essays by a Brain Injury Survivor
  3. Of or pertaining to the interior of a country; of an inland nature or character.
    • Seaside greens need not become more and more “inlandish” in character.1931, The Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute
    • There are some flattish, but not inlandish, holes on the way home from the turn, but I think the finish is rather weak when considered on a par with Deal, for instance.1948, John Board, The Right Way to Become a Golfer, page 114

Examples of inlandish in a sentence

  • Or some one or other of your outlandish, or inlandish, Lowland or Highland Counties?1849 November, John Wilson, “Dies Boreales”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 66, number 409:
  • […] and sometimes pushing too far, the transformation from an outlandish colonial history into an inlandish national one.1965, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 20:
  • The text is quite “outlandish” in its format, and if we only allow for “inlandish” styles of writing, the Laozi will always remain alien to us.2006, Hans-Georg Moeller, The Philosophy of the Daodejing:

Antonyms of inlandish

Origin of inlandish

In some senses, from inland + -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (“native, indigenous”), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (“foreign, extravagant”).

Questions about inlandish

What does inlandish mean?
Inlandish means relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native.
How do you use inlandish in a sentence?
Or some one or other of your outlandish, or inlandish, Lowland or Highland Counties?
What part of speech is inlandish?
Inlandish is an adjective.

Words near inlandish in the dictionary

  1. inland snake-eyed skinks
  2. inland taipan
  3. inland taipans
  4. inlander
  5. inlanders
  6. inlandish
  7. inlandness
  8. inlands
  9. inlane
  10. inlanes
  11. inlapidate

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