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Hidebound

Hidebound Meaning & Definition
Hidebound Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hidebound?

[adj] stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hidebound: conservative | traditionalist

Related Terms | Find terms related to Hidebound: authoritarian | bigot | bigoted | borne | censorious | closed | conservative | constricted | conventional | cramped | creedbound | deaf | deaf to reason | demure | dogmatic | dour | evangelical | fanatical | firm | fundamentalist | hard | hyperorthodox | illiberal | impliable | inexorable | inflexible | insular | intolerant | intractable | iron | ironbound | ironclad | ironhanded | literalist | literalistic | little | little-minded | mean | mean-minded | mean-spirited | mid-Victorian | muscle-bound | narrow | narrow-hearted | narrow-minded | narrow-souled | narrow-spirited | nearsighted | obdurate | obstinate | old-maidish | orthodox | overmodest | parochial | petty | precisianist | precisianistic | priggish | prim | procrustean | provincial | prudish | purblind | purist | puristic | puritan | puritanic | puritanical | Quakerish | reactionary | relentless | restricted | rigid | rigorist | rigoristic | rigorous | rockbound | Sabbatarian | sanctimonious | shortsighted | small | small-minded | smug | staunch | stiff | stiff-necked | straightlaced | straitlaced | strait-laced | strict | stubborn | stuffy | unbending | uncatholic | uncharitable | uncompromising | ungenerous | unliberal | unrelenting | unyielding | Victorian

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Hidebound In Webster's Dictionary

\Hide"bound`\, a. 1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal. 2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. --Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. --Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] --Quarles.

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