colonial synonyms

colonial

modif.

  1. Concerning a colony

    pioneer, isolated, dependent, planted, transplanted, settled, provincial, frontier, imperial, imperialist, pre-Revolutionary, Pilgrim, emigrant, immigrant, territorial, outland, pioneering, daughter, mandated, early American, overseas, protectoral, Puritan, dominion, Anglo-Indian, subject; see also distant 2, remote 1.

  2. Having qualities suggestive of colonial life

    pioneer, hard, raw, crude, harsh, wild, unsettled, limited, uncultured, new, unsophisticated; see also primitive 3, severe 2.

    Antonyms old, cultured*, decadent.

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