-n.3. counterorder, overriding, overruling, veto,
countermarch, n.1. reversal, about-face, turnabout; backlash, recoil, reaction, boomerang, rebound. -v. 2. do an about-face, veer round, wheel about; turn tail, take to one's heels, retrace one's steps; retreat, retire, draw back; revert, retrogress, fall back; withdraw, recede, retrocede, retrograde,
counterpart, n.1. copy, duplicate, duplication, Inf. ditto; model, reproduction, replica, fascimile; representation, reflection, likeness, effigy; Photostat, Inf. stat, Xerox copy, Inf.Xerox.
2. parallel, analogue, coordinate, correlative, correlate, reciprocator, correspondent, corresponding part.
3. equivalent, match, twin, double; alternate, pendant, companion, mate, fellow; imitation, close imitation, close copy, close match; complement, supplement; reverse, obverse.
4. equal, coequal, peer, compeer, rival; partner, opposite number, sidekick, alter ego, Australian, cobber; associate, colleague, confrere.
5. chip off the old block, the very image, the spitting image, spit and image.
counterpoise, n.1. counterbalance, balance, counterweight; equilibration, equalization, equivalence, equilibrium, equanimity.
-v. 2. counterbalance, balance, equilibrate; equalize, make up for, compensate, square.
3. counteract, offset, countervail; neutralize, destroy the effect of, undo,
countrified, adj.rustic, rural, farm, country, agres
tic, agrarian, bucolic; backwoods, provincial, inurbane, country-bred, country-born, upcountry, Sl. from the sticks, Sl. from the boonies, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed; homespun, homebred, homey, homely, homelike, down-home, (usually of thought or philosophy)
cracker-barrel, Inf.folksy,
country, n.1. region, district, territory, tract of land, land, terrain; section, quarter, area, place; parts, neighborhood, Inf.neck of the woods.
2. nation, power, state, commonwealth, city-state; kingdom, realm, royal domain orterritory; union, confederation, confederacy.
3. people, public, population, inhabitants, residents, dwellers; members, membership, citizens, citizenry; nation, society, community; nationality, race, tribe, stock, ethnic group.
4. native land, homeland, fatherland, Latin, patria, mother country; land of one's birth, ancestral home, roots.
5. rural districts, provinces, countryside, U.S. Inf the sticks, Sl. the boondocks, Sl. the boonies, Australian.
outback; backwoods, hinterlands, back country, woods, bush, Sl. the bushes; wilds, wilderness, frontier, no man's land, the middle of nowhere.
-adj.6. rural, agrarian, agricultural, agrestic; countrified, provincial, rustic, pastoral, Arcadian, bucolic, georgic, sylvan, U.S. woodsy, woodland, woody, wooded; back-wood, backwoods, sequestered, secluded, out-of-the-way; isolated, lonely, remote, removed, Australian,
outback; sparsely populated, frontierlike, uninhabited.
7. backward, unlearned, ignorant; unpolished, unrefined, uncultured, unsophisticated, unworldly; naive, simple, innocent, artless; awkward, clumsy, inept, Sl. klutzy, hobnail, loutish, oafish; rude, uncivil, impolite, uncouth, hick, boorish, gross; unmannerly, wild, Inf.woolly, rough, hard, tough,
countryman, n.1. native, indigene, native inhabitant orresident; compatriot, fellow citizen, fellow countryman orcountrywoman.