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Another word for narrow-minded

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narrow-minded

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bigoted, biased, provincial; see conservative, conventional 3, prejudiced.

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Another word for narrow-minded

adjective

Not tolerant of the beliefs or opinions of others, for example:
bigoted, close-minded, hidebound, illiberal, intolerant. See accept
Not broad or elevated in scope or understanding:
limited, little, narrow, petty, small, small-minded. See limited, wide
Having the restricted outlook often characteristic of geographic isolation:
insular, limited, local, narrow, parochial, provincial, small-town. See limited

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People who are narrow-minded in their approach to life can make extremely difficult partners.
Rodney King famously asked this question, and unfortunately, in a world where many are irrational, and closed and narrow-minded, the answer is sometimes no.
Throughout his whole career Binney was a vigorous opponent of the state church principle, but those who simply classified him as a narrow-minded political dissenter did him injustice.
In 1805 he was elected to succeed John Playfair in the chair of mathematics at Edinburgh, not, however, without violent though unsuccessful opposition on the part of a narrow-minded clerical party who accused him of heresy in something he had said as to the "unsophisticated notions of mankind" about the relation of cause and effect.
At this time (c. 1815-1840) numbers of persons brought discredit on the missionary cause by their illiteracy, narrow-minded prejudices his advice it was decided to create a band of native states on the northern and eastern frontiers of the colony.

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