Meaning of NARROW-MINDED
| Pronunciation: | | `narow'mIndid
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- [adj] lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"
- [adj] rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines
- [adj] capable of being shocked
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| | Synonyms: | | closed-minded, close-minded, dogmatic, dogmatical, illiberal, intolerant, narrow, opinionated, opinionative, petty, sectarian, self-opinionated, shockable, small-minded |
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| | Antonyms: | | broad-minded, unshockable | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Nar"row-mind`ed\, a.
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. --
{Nar"row-mind`ed*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | authoritarian, biased, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, fundamentalist, hidebound, illiberal, insular, intolerant, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, one-sided, opinionated, parochial, pettifogging, petty, prejudiced, provincial, purblind, puritanical, reactionary, shortsighted, small, small-minded, square, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strait-laced, stuffy, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal, unprogressive |
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