hidebound

Main Entry:
hidebound [hahyd-bound]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intolerant
Synonyms: antipathetic, averse, biased, bigoted, chauvinistic, close-minded, communist, conservative, contemptuous, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, fanatical, fractious, hateful, illiberal, indignant, individualistic, inflexible, irate, irritable, jaundiced, nar
Main Entry: conservative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo
Synonyms: Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread
Antonyms: exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical
Main Entry: conventional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unoriginal
Synonyms: bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight
Antonyms: different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique
Main Entry: little
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: narrow-minded
Synonyms: base, bigoted, cheap, contemptible, hidebound, illiberal, ineffectual, limited, mean, narrow, paltry, petty, provincial, self-centered, selfish, set, small, small-minded, vulgar, wicked
Antonyms: magnanimous, open, open-minded
Main Entry: narrow
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intolerant, small-minded
Synonyms: biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, dogmatic, hidebound, illiberal, inexorable, inflexible, narrow-minded, obdurate, parochial, partial, prejudiced, reactionary
Antonyms: accepting, broad-minded, liberal, tolerant
Main Entry: narrow-minded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: biased, intolerant
Synonyms: bigoted, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, insular, narrow, opinionated, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, reactionary, short-sighted, small-minded, strait-laced, unenlarged
Antonyms: broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, unbiased
Main Entry: provincial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: countrified; limited
Synonyms: bigoted, bucolic, country, hidebound, homegrown, homespun, insular, inward-looking, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, small-town, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated
Antonyms: citified, liberal, metropolitan, modern
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: set
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: firm, hardened; inflexible
Synonyms: entrenched, fixed, hard and fast, hidebound, immovable, jelled, located, placed, positioned, rigid, settled, sited, situate, situated, solid, stable, stiff, strict, stubborn, unyielding
Notes: to set is to place something; to sit is to be seated
Antonyms: flexible, movable, soft, unfixed
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