| 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: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is narrow-minded |
Synonyms: |
adherent, bigot, cohort, disciple, dissenter, dissident, dogmatist, extremist, fanatic, heretic, maverick, misbeliever, nonconformist, partisan, radical, rebel, revolutionary, satellite, schismatic, separatist, supporter, true believer, zealot |
Antonyms: |
liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | bigot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced person |
Synonyms: |
chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, enthusiast, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, monomaniac, opinionated person, partisan, persecutor, puritan, racist, sectarian, segregationist, sexist, stickler, superpatriot, zealot |
Antonyms: |
humanitarian, liberal, tolerator |
| Main Entry: | bigoted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced |
Synonyms: |
biased, chauvinistic, dogmatic, narrow, narrow-minded, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, small-minded, twisted, unfair, warped |
Antonyms: |
broad-minded, fair, humanitarian, just, open-minded, tolerant, 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: | dissident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disagreeing, differing |
Synonyms: |
discordant, dissentient, dissenting, heretical, heterodox, nonconformist, schismatic, sectarian, unorthodox |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
Antonyms: |
agreeing, conforming |
| Main Entry: | ecclesiastical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | churchly |
Synonyms: |
clerical, diaconal, episcopal, holy, ministerial, orthodox, parochial, pastoral, religious, sectarian, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
Synonyms: |
alienated, belligerent, contending, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, estranged, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, troublemaking, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent |
Antonyms: |
agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | heretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unorthodox |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, apostate, atheistic, differing, disagreeing, dissenting, dissentive, dissident, freethinking, heterodox, iconoclastic, idolatrous, impious, infidel, misbelieving, miscreant, nonconformist, revisionist, schismatic, sectarian, skeptical, unbelieving |
Antonyms: |
orthodox |
| 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 |