Another word for parochial
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Adjective
Having the restricted outlook often characteristic of geographic isolation
- Narrow-minded, illiberal, or provincial
- Of, or having the form of, an island
- Circumscribed and detached in outlook and experience; narrow or provincial.
- Of or designating a partnership in which the liability of certain of its partners is limited to the amount of their individual investments
- Confined or restricted within certain limits:
- Having governmental or ruling powers restricted by enforceable limitations, as a constitution or a legislative body:
- Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area:
- Of or affecting a specific part of the body:
- Not broad or general; not widespread:
- Lacking flexibility; rigid:
- Limited in means; with hardly enough to live on
- Of small or limited width, especially in comparison with length.
- Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas
- Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- Limited in outlook or lacking in tolerance; not open-minded; bigoted, prejudiced, etc.
- Designating or of a style, esp. of 18th-cent. European furniture, that was characteristic of the provinces and was a simpler and plainer copy of the style characteristic of the capital and cultural centers
- Having the ways, speech, attitudes, etc. of a certain province
- Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.
- Of or characteristic of a small town; easygoing, unsophisticated, provincial, etc.
- Limited in outlook or experience; unsophisticated; provincial.
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Another word for parochial
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