| 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 |