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| Main Entry: |
clannish
 [klan-ish] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exclusive, select |
| Synonyms: | akin, alike, associative, cliquish, close, insular, like, narrow, related, reserved, restricting, restrictive, sectarian, unfriendly, unreceptive |
| Antonyms: | friendly, open, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, exclusive |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, clannish, cliquish, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, factional, fanatic, fanatical, hidebound, insular, limited, local, nonconforming, nonconformist, parochial, partisan, provincial, rigid, schismatic, skeptical, small-town, splinter |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | swank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exclusive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, aloof, aristocratic, chic, choice, chosen, circumscribed, clannish, classy, cliquish, closed, complete, confined, country club, discriminative, elegant, entire, exclusionary, exclusory, fancy, fashionable, full, independent, licensed, limited, narrow, only, particular, peculiar, posh, preferential, private, privileged, prohibitive, restrictive, ritzy, segregated, select, selfish, single, snobbish, socially correct, sole, swanky, total*, undivided, unique, upper crust, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Example Sentences
- Yale, are perhaps clannish, but not to the ex tent oi doing any injustice to other officers.
- In fact, they disregarded everybody but themselves and were quite clannish.
- That's why this team-based or clannish thinking annoys me to no end.
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