What does countrify mean?
Countrify means (transitive) To make rural or rustic..
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/ˈkʌn.tɹɪ.fʌɪ/ · verb
(transitive) To make rural or rustic..
LOVEL. When I am properly habited, you ſhall get me introduced to Philip as one of your Tenant's Sons, who wants to be made a good Servant of. / FREEMAN. They will certainly diſcover you. / LOVEL. Never fear, I'll be ſo countrify'd that you ſhall not know me.
This tendency to move away from crowded centers of population, with their congested apartment life, to the country and small towns where the laborer and his family may have cheap breathing space—in other words, this countrifying of industries—is growing more and more evident.
Even whitebread folk-rockers like the Byrds were, thanks to Gram Parsons, countrifying soul hits like "You Don't Miss Your Water."
Use countrify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Countrify means (transitive) To make rural or rustic..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include citify.
LOVEL. When I am properly habited, you ſhall get me introduced to Philip as one of your Tenant's Sons, who wants to be made a good Servant of. / FREEMAN. They will certainly diſcover you. / LOVEL. Never fear, I'll be ſo countrify'd that you ſhall not know me.
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