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   insular

   /ˈɪnsjʊlə/

   adjective

   • 1. ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience: "a stubbornly insular farming people" Similar narrow-mindedlimitedblinkeredrestrictedinward-lookingconventionalparochialprovincialsmall-townlocalistsmall-mindedpetty-mindedpettyclose-mindedshort-sightedmyopichidebounddyed-in-the-wooldiehardsetset in one's waysinflexibledogmaticrigidentrenchedilliberalintolerantprejudicedbigotedbiasedpartisansectarianxenophobicdiscriminatoryparish-pumpblimpishbornéinformal:jerkwaterrare:claustralOpposite broad-mindedtolerant
   • ▪ lacking contact with other people: "people living restricted and sometimes insular existences" Similar isolatedinaccessiblecut offclosedseparatesegregateddetachedsolitarylonelyinsulatedself-containedself-sufficientOpposite accessiblecosmopolitan
   • 2. relating to or from an island: "goods of insular origin"
   • ▪ relating to a form of Latin handwriting used in Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages: "insular illumination of the 6th century"
   • ▪ (of climate) equable because of the influence of the sea.
   • 3. relating to the insula of the brain.

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a noun denoting an islander): from late Latin insularis, from insula ‘island’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. insularly adverb

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