单词 | citified |
释义 | citified (once / 71201 pages) adj If you're citified, you're comfortable and familiar with being in a city. When your cousin travels from North Dakota to visit you in Chicago, she might take one look at you and declare you totally citified. The adjective citified is often used as a put-down, a way to criticize someone for being too much a city person. If your expertise includes hailing cabs and dodging pedestrians on the sidewalk, your attempts to master cattle ranching or piloting a lobster boat might inspire the locals to call you citified. A more complimentary word to use would be urbane, which describes someone who's an elegant and refined city person. WORD FAMILYcitify: citified, citifying+/city: cities, citify, city-like USAGE EXAMPLESMary Alice and I carried the tale home that a suspicious type had come off the train in citified clothes and a stiff straw hat. Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago(1998) When she said ‘citified’ she pushed her nose up with one finger. Washington Times(Aug 27, 2016) In all, 172 delegates will be chosen along a heavily urban corridor that seems to favor the citified Trump and his front-running campaign. Los Angeles Times(Apr 19, 2016) adj being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person Syn city-born, city-bred, cityfied urban located in or characteristic of a city or city life |
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