Antonyms of adj corn-fed

2 senses of corn-fed

Sense 1
corn-fed -- (fed on corn; "corn-fed livestock")

INDIRECT (VIA nourished) -> malnourished -- (not being provided with adequate nourishment)

Sense 2
corn-fed -- (strong and healthy but not sophisticated)

INDIRECT (VIA provincial) -> cosmopolitan -- (composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks")

Similarity of adj corn-fed

2 senses of corn-fed

Sense 1
corn-fed -- (fed on corn; "corn-fed livestock")
       => nourished (vs. malnourished) -- (being provided with adequate nourishment)

Sense 2
corn-fed -- (strong and healthy but not sophisticated)
       => provincial (vs. cosmopolitan) -- (characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes")

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