backwoods

backwoods
n
1. hinterlands, wilds, wilderness, frontier, woods, bush, country, no man's land, Sl. the boondocks, Australian. outback, U.S. Inf. the sticks.
adj
2.Also backwood sequestered, secluded, isolated, lonely, remote, removed, inaccessible, Australian. outback; sylvan, woodsy, wild, frontierlike, unsettled; rural, agrarian, agrestic, country, countrified, provincial; rustic, pastoral, Arcadian, bucolic, georgic.
3. unsophisticated, unlearned, ignorant; naive, innocent, simple; unpolished, unrefined, uncultured, uncivil, unmannerly, artless, awkward, clumsy, inept; uncouth, hick, rude, boorish, gross.

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