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narrow-minded

adjective

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1

as in prejudiced

unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints

it took a while for some of the more narrow-minded members of management to be persuaded to modernize the dress code

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  • prejudiced

  • bigoted

  • conservative

  • intolerant

  • smallminded

  • illiberal

  • parochial

  • reactionary

  • narrow

  • provincial

  • insular

  • blinkered

  • hidebound

  • biased

  • partisan

  • oldfashioned

  • partial

  • blindfolded

  • onesided


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  • liberal

  • unprejudiced

  • tolerant

  • extreme

  • radical

  • broadminded

  • progressive

  • openminded

  • impartial

  • unbiased

  • objective

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  • broadminded

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2

as in parochial

not broad or open in views or opinions

narrow-minded people who instinctively feared and shunned those from different cultures

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  • parochial

  • small

  • petty

  • narrow

  • insular

  • little

  • provincial

  • stubborn

  • sectarian

  • smallminded

  • illiberal

  • bigoted

  • picayune

  • prejudiced

  • rigid

  • wrongheaded

  • obstinate

  • biased

  • intolerant

  • reactionary

  • partisan

  • dogmatic

  • discriminatory

  • opinionated

  • obdurate

  • opinionative

  • limited

  • hidebound

  • inflexible

  • Lilliputian

  • stodgy

  • ironbound

  • discriminating

  • jaundiced

  • unyielding

  • unsophisticated

  • straitlaced

  • partial

  • onesided

  • stuffy

  • dogmatical

  • straightlaced

  • hick

  • set

  • oldfashioned

  • brassbound


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  • liberal

  • tolerant

  • cosmopolitan

  • catholic

  • open

  • receptive

  • broadminded

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  • unprejudiced

  • unbiased

  • impartial

  • objective

  • nonpartisan

  • freethinking

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How to use narrow minded in a sentence

This discovery gives me a fit 48 of introspection and I discover that I am, indeed, a narrow-minded little pinhead.

MY WONDERFUL VISITCHARLIE CHAPLIN

Even a Friar Tuck is not so repulsive to us as an unsocial, austere, narrow-minded, and ignorant fanatic of the eleventh century.

BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORD

«No, I suppose they didn’t ‘call’ in the old narrow-minded time,» said Basil Dashwood.

THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMES

The hotel manager was a small-minded man with a narrow-minded outlook and a brain that was almost totally unable to learn.

THIN EDGEGORDON RANDALL GARRETT

Mrs. Sparrow came to see her, and the narrow-minded grey woman proved to be unusually sympathetic.

A SON OF PERDITIONFERGUS HUME

There was no false pride about Poker Vandeleur; no narrow-minded dislike to being paid for.

MOUNT ROYAL, VOLUME 3 OF 3MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

«And the narrow-minded mother declared she could see no beauty in single dahlias,» added Dopsy, with ineffable disgust.

MOUNT ROYAL, VOLUME 3 OF 3MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

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[ nˈaɹə͡ʊmˈa͡ɪndɪd], [ nˈaɹə‍ʊmˈa‍ɪndɪd], [ n_ˈa_ɹ_əʊ_m_ˈaɪ_n_d_ɪ_d]

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  • adj.

    all (adjective)

    • shockable,
    • narrow-minded.

    biased, intolerant (adjective)

    • small-minded,
    • short-sighted,
    • opinionated,
    • strait-laced,
    • illiberal,
    • Unenlarged.

    bigoted (adjective)

    • smallminded,
    • more chauvinistic,
    • most chauvinistic,
    • un-fairest,
    • un fairer,
    • small minded,
    • un fair,
    • warped,
    • narrowminded,
    • un fairest,
    • most warped,
    • more warped,
    • un-fairer,
    • narrow minded,
    • un-fair.

    close-minded (adjective)

    • unpersuadable,
    • un persuadable,
    • most unpersuadable,
    • un-persuadable,
    • close minded,
    • closeminded,
    • more unpersuadable.

    conventional (adjective)

    • more straight-laced,
    • in-flexible,
    • rube,
    • straight laced,
    • up tight,
    • more straight laced,
    • most straight laced,
    • up-tight,
    • most straight-laced,
    • stereo typed,
    • more straightlaced,
    • most isolationist,
    • lamest,
    • more isolationist,
    • de mure,
    • rubest,
    • stereo-typed,
    • de-mure,
    • more doctrinal,
    • most straightlaced,
    • most doctrinal,
    • in flexible.

    dogmatic (adjective)

    • more wrong headed,
    • most stiff necked,
    • de finite,
    • most wrongheaded,
    • more wrong-headed,
    • doctrinaire,
    • more stiff-necked,
    • most wrong headed,
    • un equivocal,
    • more wrongheaded,
    • most fascistic,
    • most stiffnecked,
    • most stiff-necked,
    • over bearing,
    • more stiffnecked,
    • un-equivocal,
    • most dictative,
    • more stiff necked,
    • most wrong-headed,
    • peremptory,
    • stiff necked,
    • high mighty,
    • one sided,
    • onesided,
    • more dictative,
    • stiffnecked,
    • more fascistic,
    • wrong headed,
    • de-finite,
    • Over-bearing.

    fanatical (adjective)

    • mono maniacal,
    • most monomaniacal,
    • more bugged,
    • more monomaniacal,
    • most obsessive,
    • more obsessive,
    • nuts for,
    • in corrigible,
    • mono-maniacal,
    • obsessive,
    • monomaniacal,
    • most bugged,
    • head strong,
    • de-voted,
    • single minded,
    • de voted,
    • in-corrigible.

    inconsiderable (adjective)

    • of no account,
    • inconsiderable.

    intolerant (adjective)

    • in-tolerant,
    • un-indulgent,
    • most xenophobic,
    • more outraged,
    • most short-fuse,
    • un-willing,
    • in tolerant,
    • more workedup,
    • un forbearing,
    • shortfuse,
    • most worked up,
    • most short fuse,
    • more unindulgent,
    • more worked up,
    • most communist,
    • un charitable,
    • workedup,
    • anti-pathetic,
    • more short fuse,
    • most racialist,
    • tilted,
    • most outraged,
    • individualistic,
    • up-set,
    • un willing,
    • un indulgent,
    • out raged,
    • most shortfuse,
    • unindulgent,
    • un-forbearing,
    • more shortfuse,
    • more tilted,
    • more communist,
    • most unindulgent,
    • anti pathetic,
    • more short-fuse,
    • fractious,
    • un sympathetic,
    • more racialist,
    • xenophobic,
    • most workedup,
    • un-charitable,
    • more worked-up,
    • more xenophobic,
    • out-raged,
    • most tilted,
    • most worked-up.

    narrow (adjective)

    • in-exorable.

    Other relevant words: (adjective)

    • scratcher,
    • ruber,
    • isolationist,
    • stuffy,
    • head-strong,
    • nickel-and-dime,
    • provincial,
    • bigoted,
    • rabid,
    • racialist,
    • wrong-headed,
    • petty,
    • divisional,
    • close-minded,
    • racist,
    • doctrinal,
    • fascistic,
    • intolerant,
    • up set,
    • narrow,
    • high on,
    • over-nice,
    • wrongheaded,
    • in rut,
    • over-modest,
    • dictative,
    • selfish,
    • towner,
    • singleminded,
    • overmodest,
    • chauvinistic,
    • dogmatic,
    • sexist,
    • not heretical,
    • small town,
    • preconceived,
    • shoestring,
    • run of the mill,
    • short-fuse,
    • inward-looking,
    • penny ante,
    • prejudiced,
    • penny-ante,
    • straightlaced,
    • stiff-necked,
    • small-town,
    • worked-up,
    • straight-laced.

    petty (adjective)

    • more shoestring,
    • most penny ante,
    • in-essential,
    • nickel and dime,
    • most junior,
    • piddling,
    • more pennyante,
    • most pettifogging,
    • twobit,
    • most nickel and dime,
    • most peanut,
    • most pennyante,
    • most penny-ante,
    • scratchest,
    • more pettifogging,
    • un-important,
    • most nickel-and-dime,
    • more penny-ante,
    • most shoestring,
    • in consequent,
    • sub ordinate,
    • more nickel-and-dime,
    • pennyante,
    • in essential,
    • more peanut,
    • sub-ordinate,
    • more penny ante,
    • two bit,
    • more nickel and dime,
    • in-consequent.

    prejudiced (adjective)

    • pre-supposing,
    • closed minded,
    • pre-possessed,
    • pre-conceived,
    • more leaning,
    • dis criminatory,
    • more sexist,
    • pre-disposed,
    • pre supposing,
    • most presupposing,
    • pre possessed,
    • most preconceived,
    • more presupposing,
    • closedminded,
    • dis-criminatory,
    • more preconceived,
    • most sexist,
    • pre conceived,
    • most leaning.

    provincial (adjective)

    • most inward looking,
    • most inwardlooking,
    • un informed,
    • un polished,
    • inward looking,
    • un sophisticated,
    • most inward-looking,
    • more inwardlooking,
    • more inward-looking,
    • more inward looking,
    • un-informed,
    • inwardlooking.

    prudish (adjective)

    • more overmodest,
    • over nice,
    • over modest,
    • over-exact,
    • more overexact,
    • more overnice,
    • over exact,
    • most overnice,
    • overexact,
    • most overmodest,
    • most overexact,
    • most simpering,
    • overnice,
    • more simpering.

    rabid (adjective)

    • Flipped,
    • steamed up,
    • Corybantic,
    • mad-dog,
    • Poisoned,
    • Ultraist,
    • smoking,
    • overboard.

    racist (adjective)

    • antisemitic.

    selfish (adjective)

    • out for number one,
    • hoggish,
    • wrapped up in oneself,
    • egomaniacal,
    • Self-interested.

    small-town (adjective)

    • more neighborhood,
    • townest,
    • more divisional,
    • most neighborhood,
    • most district,
    • most divisional,
    • most parish,
    • smalltown,
    • more district,
    • more parish.

    stuffy (adjective)

    • prim and proper,
    • puffy,
    • humorless,
    • self-important.
  • n.

    • rigid,
    • stubborn,
    • inflexible.

    • accept.

    • wide,
    • limited,
    • small,
    • little.

    • insular.

    bigoted (noun)

    • biased.

    closed-minded (noun)

    • closed-minded.

    dogmatical (noun)

    • dogmatical.

    narrow-minded (noun)

    • sectarian,
    • self-opinionated,
    • opinionative.

    Other relevant words: (noun)

    • characteristic.
  • Other synonyms:

    • obdurate,
    • dyed-in-the-wool,
    • reactionary,
    • neoconservative,
    • immovable,
    • blinkered,
    • intractable,
    • willful,
    • hard core,
    • stodgy,
    • headstrong,
    • unbending,
    • bloody-minded,
    • implacable,
    • unadventurous,
    • adamant,
    • pigheaded,
    • unreconstructed,
    • Hard-headed,
    • meat and potatoes,
    • self-willed,
    • cussed,
    • intransigent,
    • bigot,
    • closed,
    • suburban.

    • obstinate,
    • parochial,
    • hidebound.

    • conventional,
    • set,
    • conservative.

    • local.

    fanatic

    • fanatical.

    flimsy

    • superficial.

    Other relevant words (noun):

    • pietistic,
    • bourgeois,
    • mercenary,
    • narrow gauge,
    • ultraconservative,
    • fussy,
    • hard-nosed,
    • old-fogyish,
    • inconsiderate,
    • unlearned,
    • crass,
    • fanatic,
    • moralistic,
    • old fashioned,
    • anti-intellectual,
    • priggish,
    • niggardly,
    • uncompromising,
    • square,
    • ultra-conservative,
    • grudging,
    • prudish,
    • uneducated,
    • unchanging,
    • inequitable,
    • austere,
    • dull,
    • old-maidish,
    • isolated,
    • uptight,
    • twisted,
    • stingy,
    • cramped,
    • jaundiced,
    • factional,
    • demarcated,
    • materialistic,
    • stiff,
    • ascetic,
    • legalistic,
    • unimaginative,
    • untutored,
    • prejudicial,
    • prim,
    • pettifogging,
    • regional,
    • goody-goody,
    • authoritarian,
    • deaf,
    • inveterate,
    • puritanical,
    • proper,
    • ageist,
    • minute,
    • unsophisticated,
    • unchangeable,
    • severe,
    • partisan,
    • straitlaced,
    • mean,
    • one-sided,
    • unlettered,
    • fundamentalist,
    • lowbrow,
    • Mean-spirited,
    • unworldly,
    • unrefined,
    • classist,
    • lilliputian,
    • shortsighted,
    • scrupulous,
    • nearsighted,
    • hard-line,
    • ungenerous,
    • unjust,
    • victorian,
    • commonplace,
    • red-necked,
    • unenlightened,
    • purblind,
    • tasteless,
    • boring,
    • disapproving,
    • confined,
    • unfair,
    • partial,
    • discriminatory,
    • unthinking,
    • unprogressive,
    • non-objective,
    • myopic,
    • uncultivated,
    • unread,
    • strict,
    • prosaic,
    • boorish,
    • tendentious,
    • uncharitable,
    • constricted,
    • stern,
    • uncultured,
    • picayune,
    • commercial,
    • Borne,
    • literal-minded,
    • thoughtless,
    • near-sighted,
    • puritan,
    • covetous,
    • restricted,
    • philistine.

How to use «Narrow-minded» in context?

I’ve always been fascinated by the phrase «narrow-minded.» It’s one that’s been used to describe people who are too focused on the things that are important to them. For example, maybe someone is narrow-minded when it comes to their job. They only care about the tasks that they are assigned to and they never look at the bigger picture.

Similarly, if someone is narrow-minded with their friends, they might only care about those friends that they feel are important to them. They won’t try to get to know other people and they won’t warm up to them slowly.

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  • Equivalence

    • Adjective
      illiberal, blinkered.
  • Forward Entailment

    • Adjective
      narrow.
  • Independent

    • Adjective
      limited, restricted, restrictive.
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    • Adjective
      bigoted, dogmatic, insular, intolerant, parochial, petty, shortsighted, smug, stubborn, short-sighted.

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…there was widespread disapprobation of their mixed marriage in that narrow-minded community…

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