About The Word Insular
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Insular
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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"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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