Usually means: Simple, homely, and unpretentious style.
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  1. folksy: Merriam-Webster
  2. folksy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. folksy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. folksy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. folksy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Folksy, folksy: Wordnik
  7. folksy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. folksy: Wiktionary
  9. folksy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. folksy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. folksy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. folksy: Dictionary.com
  13. folksy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. folksy: Rhymezone
  15. folksy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. folksy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. folksy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. folksy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. folksy: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Characteristic of simple country life.
▸ adjective:  Informal, affable and familiar.

Similar:
rural, cracker-barrel, homespun, informal, simple-lifeish, townly, hometownish, characterful, quaint, gentle or simple, more...

Opposite:
urbane, sophisticated, cosmopolitan, worldly, refined

Types:
country, bluegrass, folk rock, roots, old-time, Appalachian, acoustic, traditional, more...

Phrases:
folksy language, more...

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Similar:
rural, cracker-barrel, homespun, informal, simple-lifeish, townly, hometownish, characterful, quaint, gentle or simple, more...

Opposite:
urbane, sophisticated, cosmopolitan, worldly, refined

Types:
country, bluegrass, folk rock, roots, old-time, Appalachian, acoustic, traditional, more...

Phrases:
folksy language, more...



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