 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
insular
adjective
1: relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island;
"insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"
2: suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an
exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem
inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard
Michaels
3: narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy
with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward
foreigners" [syn: {parochial}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Insular \In"su*lar\, adjective [L. insularis, fr. insula island: cf. F.
insulaire. See {Isle}.]
1. Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or
possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an
insular climate, fauna, etc.
2. Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow;
circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits,
opinions, or prejudices.
The penury of insular conversation. --Johnson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Insular \In"su*lar\, noun
An islander. [R.] --Berkeley.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "insular":
alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic,
asunder, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, bipartite, borne,
circumscribed, closed, companionless, confined, constricted,
cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, detached, dichotomous,
disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disrelated,
dissociated, distinct, divergent, ethnocentric, exceptional,
excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exotic, extraneous, fanatical,
foreign, friendless, geographically limited, hidebound, homeless,
illiberal, in a backwater, in two, inadmissible, incoherent,
incommensurable, incomparable, independent, insulated, irrelative,
island, island-dotted, island-dweller, islanded, islander,
islandish, islandlike, islandman, islandologist, islandy, islesman,
isleted, isolated, kithless, limited, little, little-minded, local,
localized, lone, lonely, lonesome, mean, mean-minded,
mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded,
narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, noncohesive,
of a place, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish,
parochial, partitioned, petty, preclusive, prescriptive,
preventive, prohibitive, provincial, purblind, quarantined,
regional, remote, removed, restricted, restrictive, retired,
rootless, seagirt, secluded, seclusive, sectarian, sectional,
segregate, segregated, segregative, select, selective, separate,
separated, separative, shortsighted, shut off, single-handed,
small, small-minded, small-town, snobbish, solitary, solo,
straitlaced, strange, stuffy, topical, unabetted, unaccompanied,
unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated,
unattached, unattended, uncatholic, uncharitable, unconnected,
unescorted, unfrequented, ungenerous, unjoined, unliberal,
unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited,
vernacular, withdrawn, xenophobic
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