 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
parochial
adjective
1: relating to or supported by or located in a parish;
"parochial schools"
2: narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy
with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward
foreigners" [syn: {insular}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parochial \Pa*ro"chi*al\, adjective [LL. parochialis, from L. parochia.
See {Parish}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as,
parochial duties; parochial schools. ''Parochial
pastors.'' --Bp. Atterbury.
2. Hence: Limited; narrow; having or characterized by narrow
interests centered on oneself or one's local community;
narrow-minded; provincial; as, parochial views. ''The
parochial mind.'' --W. Black.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "parochial":
authoritarian, biased, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, confined,
conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
deaf to reason, dogmatic, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding,
exclusive, exclusory, fanatical, geographically limited, hidebound,
illiberal, immovable, inadmissible, insular, intolerant,
intractable, isolated, limited, little, little-minded, local,
localized, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow,
narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited,
nearsighted, of a place, one-sided, opinionated, partial, petty,
preclusive, prejudiced, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive,
provincial, purblind, regional, restricted, restrictive, rigid,
seclusive, sectarian, segregative, select, selective, separative,
short-sighted, shortsighted, small, small-minded, small-town,
snobbish, stiff, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy,
topical, uncatholic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncharitable,
uncultivated, uncultured, ungenerous, unliberal, unsophisticated,
unworldly, vernacular, xenophobic
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