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Insular Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Insular? [adj] narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners" [adj] suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels [adj] relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Insular: parochial \| private \| provincial Related Terms \| Find terms related to Insular: alien \| alienated \| alone \| aloof \| apart \| archipelagian \| archipelagic \| asunder \| authoritarian \| bigot \| bigoted \| bipartite \| borne \| circumscribed \| closed \| companionless \| confined \| constricted \| cramped \| creedbound \| deaf \| deaf to reason \| detached \| dichotomous \| disconnected \| discontinuous \| discrete \| disjunct \| disrelated \| dissociated \| distinct \| divergent \| ethnocentric \| exceptional \| excluding \| exclusive \| exclusory \| exotic \| extraneous \| fanatical \| foreign \| friendless \| geographically limited \| hidebound \| homeless \| illiberal \| in a backwater \| in two \| inadmissible \| incoherent \| incommensurable \| incomparable \| independent \| insulated \| irrelative \| island \| island-dotted \| island-dweller \| islanded \| islander \| islandish \| islandlike \| islandman \| islandologist \| islandy \| islesman \| isleted \| isolated \| kithless \| limited \| little \| little-minded \| local \| localized \| lone \| lonely \| lonesome \| mean \| mean-minded \| mean-spirited \| narrow \| narrow-hearted \| narrow-minded \| narrow-souled \| narrow-spirited \| nearsighted \| noncohesive \| of a place \| other \| outlandish \| out-of-the-way \| out-of-the-world \| parochial \| partitioned \| petty \| preclusive \| prescriptive \| preventive \| prohibitive \| provincial \| purblind \| quarantined \| regional \| remote \| removed \| restricted \| restrictive \| retired \| rootless \| seagirt \| secluded \| seclusive \| sectarian \| sectional \| segregate \| segregated \| segregative \| select \| selective \| separate \| separated \| separative \| shortsighted \| shut off \| single-handed \| small \| small-minded \| small-town \| snobbish \| solitary \| solo \| straitlaced \| strange \| stuffy \| topical \| unabetted \| unaccompanied \| unaffiliated \| unaided \| unallied \| unassisted \| unassociated \| unattached \| unattended \| uncatholic \| uncharitable \| unconnected \| unescorted \| unfrequented \| ungenerous \| unjoined \| unliberal \| unrelatable \| unrelated \| unseconded \| unsupported \| unvisited \| vernacular \| withdrawn \| xenophobic See Also \| Insular In Webster's Dictionary \In"sular\, a. [L. insularis, fr. insula island: cf. F. insulaire. See {Isle}.] 1. Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc. 2. Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices. The penury of insular conversation. --Johnson. \In"sular\, n. An islander. [R.] --Berkeley.

Insular Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Insular?

[adj] narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
[adj] suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels
[adj] relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Insular: parochial | private | provincial

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Insular In Webster's Dictionary

\In"su*lar\, a. [L. insularis, fr. insula island: cf. F.
insulaire. See {Isle}.]
1. Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or
   possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an
   insular climate, fauna, etc.

2. Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow;
   circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits,
   opinions, or prejudices.

         The penury of insular conversation.   --Johnson.


\In"su*lar\, n.
An islander. [R.] --Berkeley.

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