Search Result for "narrow-minded":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. capable of being shocked;
[syn: shockable, narrow-minded]
2. lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view;
- Example: "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"
- Example: "narrow opinions"
[syn: narrow-minded, narrow]
3. rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Narrow-minded \Nar"row-mind`ed\, a. Of narrow mental scope; lacking tolerance or breadth of view; illiberal; mean. Opposite of broad-minded, open-minded, liberal. [WordNet sense 2] [Narrower terms: dogmatic, dogmatical; little, petty, small, small-minded] Syn: narrowminded, narrow, illiberal, intolerant. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 2. Capable of being shocked by behavior of others. Opposite of unshockable. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: shockable. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "narrow-minded": biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, fundamentalist, hidebound, illiberal, intolerant, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-spirited, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, one-sided, opinionated, parochial, pettifogging, petty, prejudiced, puritanical, reactionary, small-minded, square, stiff-necked, strait-laced, stuffy, unprogressive
