insular
adjective
[ ˈɪnsjʊlə ]
• ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.
• "a stubbornly insular farming people"
Similar:
narrow-minded,
limited,
blinkered,
restricted,
inward-looking,
conventional,
parochial,
provincial,
small-town,
localist,
small-minded,
petty-minded,
petty,
close-minded,
short-sighted,
myopic,
hidebound,
dyed-in-the-wool,
diehard,
set,
set in one's ways,
inflexible,
dogmatic,
rigid,
entrenched,
illiberal,
intolerant,
prejudiced,
bigoted,
biased,
partisan,
sectarian,
xenophobic,
discriminatory,
parish-pump,
blimpish,
borné,
jerkwater,
claustral,
• relating to or from an island.
• "goods of insular origin"
• relating to the insula of the brain.
Origin:
mid 16th century (as a noun denoting an islander): from late Latin insularis, from insula ‘island’.
