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1. of or concerning a province of a country or empire
2. having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal
1. Peter Parker often returned to his provincial life in Queens after battling villains as Spider-Man.
2. Despite the cosmopolitan nature of Metropolis, Clark Kent never lost his provincial charm from growing up in Smallville.
3. Doraemon often finds Nobita's problems to be quite provincial compared to the futuristic issues he's used to in the 22nd century.
4. In the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', Andy Dufresne's escape plans might have seemed provincial to the other inmates, but they were actually ingenious.