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narrow–minded
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of NARROW-MINDED
1
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints <integration of the public schools was once vigorously opposed by narrow-minded people who feared social change>
Related Words hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary; blindfolded, blinkered, insular, parochial, provincial; biased, one-sided, partial, partisan
2
not broad or open in views or opinions <narrow-minded people who instinctively feared and opposed any and all immigrants>
Synonyms illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, little, narrow-minded, parochial, petty, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small, small-minded
Related Words inflexible, ironbound, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, set, stubborn, unyielding, wrongheaded; bigoted, intolerant; biased, discriminating, discriminatory, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced; brass bound, hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary, stodgy, straitlaced (or straightlaced), stuffy; dogmatic (also dogmatical), opinionated, opinionative; limited; hick, unsophisticated
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