hidebound
adjective
[ ˈhʌɪdbaʊnd ]
• unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention.
• "they are working to change hidebound corporate cultures"
Similar:
conservative,
reactionary,
conventional,
orthodox,
fundamentalist,
diehard,
hard-line,
dyed-in-the-wool,
ultra-conservative,
fixed in one's views,
set in one's opinions,
set in one's ways,
narrow-minded,
narrow,
petty-minded,
small-minded,
intolerant,
intractable,
uncompromising,
rigid,
prejudiced,
bigoted,
strait-laced,
blimpish,
Origin:
mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle): from hide2 + bound4. The earliest sense of the adjective (referring to cattle) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense ‘narrow in outlook’.
