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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

prejudiced and intolerant, not open to or accepting of other beliefs or views;

e.g. My grandparents are narrow-minded and conservative in their beliefs.

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Similar Words

Anal

Anal-retentive

Bigoted

Hard-shell

Hick

Illiberal

Insular

Intolerant

Ironbound

Least

Lilliputian

Little

Narrow

Parochial

Petty

Picayune

Prejudiced

Provincial

Retentive

Sectarian

Small

Small-minded

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Opposite Words

Broad-minded

Compassionate

Empathetic

Empathic

Extreme

Humane

Impartial

Liberal

Nonorthodox

Nonpartisan

Nontraditional

Objective

Open

Open-minded

Progressive

Radical

Receptive

Responsive

Sympathetic

Unbiased

Unconventional

Understanding

Unorthodox

Unprejudiced

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Related Words

Adamant

Adamantine

Biased

Bigoted

Brassbound

Bullheaded

Conservative

Deaf

Discriminating

Discriminatory

Dogged

Dogmatic

Hard

Hard-nosed

Hardheaded

Headstrong

Hick

Hidebound

Immovable

Implacable

Inconvincible

Inflexible

Insular

Intolerant

Intransigent

Ironbound

Jaundiced

Limited

Mulish

Obdurate

Obstinate

Old-fashioned

One-sided

Opinionated

Parochial

Partial

Partisan

Pat

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pigheaded

Prejudiced

Provincial

Reactionary

Revengeful

Rigid

Self-willed

Stiff-necked

Stodgy

Straitlaced

Stubborn

Stuffy

Unbending

Uncompromising

Unrelenting

Unsophisticated

Unyielding

Vengeful

Vindictive

Willful

Wrongheaded

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