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Main Entry: insular
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: narrow-minded

Synonyms:

bigoted, circumscribed, closed, confined, contracted, cut off, detached, illiberal, inward-looking, isolated, limited, narrow, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, restricted, secluded, separate, separated, sequestered

Antonyms:

broad-minded, unbiased, unprejudiced
Main Entry: clannish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exclusive, select

Synonyms:

akin, alike, associative, cliquish, close, insular, like, narrow, related, reserved, restricting, restrictive, sectarian, unfriendly, unreceptive

Antonyms:

friendly, open, welcoming
Main Entry: conventional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unoriginal

Synonyms:

bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight

Antonyms:

different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique
Main Entry: local
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: of a community, restricted to immediate area

Synonyms:

bounded, civic, confined, district, divisional, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, small-town, territorial, town, vernacular

Antonyms:

foreign, nonnative
Main Entry: narrow-minded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: biased, intolerant

Synonyms:

bigoted, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, insular, narrow, opinionated, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, reactionary, short-sighted, small-minded, strait-laced, unenlarged

Antonyms:

broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, unbiased
Main Entry: parochial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: narrow-minded, restricted

Synonyms:

biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, insular, inward-looking, limited, local, narrow, petty, prejudiced, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, shallow, small-minded, small-town

Antonyms:

broad, liberal, unrestricted
Main Entry: provincial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: countrified; limited

Synonyms:

bigoted, bucolic, country, hidebound, homegrown, homespun, insular, inward-looking, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, small-town, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated

Antonyms:

citified, liberal, metropolitan, modern
Main Entry: secluded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: isolated, sheltered

Synonyms:

abandoned, alone, aloof, beleaguered, blockaded, cloistered, close, closet, confidential, covert, cut off, deserted, hermetic, hidden, incommunicado, insular, isolate, lonely, lonesome, off the beaten track, out-of-the-way, personal, private, quarantined, quiet, reclusive, remote, removed, reserved, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive, secret, segregated, sequestered, shut off, shy, singular, solitary, tucked away, unapproachable, unfrequented, uninhabited, unsociable, withdrawn

Antonyms:

joining, mingling, open, public, sociable, socializing
Main Entry: sectarian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: narrow-minded, exclusive

Synonyms:

bigoted, clannish, cliquish, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, factional, fanatic, fanatical, hidebound, insular, limited, local, nonconforming, nonconformist, parochial, partisan, provincial, rigid, schismatic, skeptical, small-town, splinter
Notes: sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature

Antonyms:

broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian
Main Entry: topical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: restricted, local

Synonyms:

confined, insular, limited, parochial, particular, regional, sectional

Antonyms:

general, unrestricted
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