Meaning of HIDEBOUND
| Pronunciation: | | 'hId`bawnd
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| | Definition: | | [adj] stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded |
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| | Synonyms: | | conservative, traditionalist |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hide"bound`\, a.
1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back
as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an
animal.
2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it
impedes the growth; -- said of trees. --Bacon.
3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly
conservative. --Milton. Carlyle.
4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] --Quarles.
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| | Related Terms: | | authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hyperorthodox, illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, intolerant, intractable, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, literalist, literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial, petty, precisianist, precisianistic, priggish, prim, procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, Quakerish, reactionary, relentless, restricted, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, Sabbatarian, sanctimonious, shortsighted, small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, straightlaced, straitlaced, strait-laced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding, Victorian |
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