isolationist

[ahy-suh-ley-shuh-nist, is-uh-] / ˌaɪ səˈleɪ ʃə nɪst, ˌɪs ə- /

ADJECTIVE

conventional

Synonyms

STRONGEST

rigid

WEAK

bigoted bourgeois button-down commonplace conforming conservative demure doctrinal dogmatic drippy hackneyed hidebound humdrum illiberal in rut inflexible insular lame literal moderate moral narrow narrow-minded not extreme not heretical obstinate parochial pedestrian prosaic puritanical routine rube run-of-the-mill sober solemn square stereotyped straight strait-laced strict stuffy uptight

Antonyms

WEAK

abnormal different exotic foreign irregular new original strange uncommon unconventional uncustomary unique unusual

NOUN

nonaligned nation

Synonyms

WEAK

neutralist nation unaligned nation

Example Sentences

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“We can’t be completely isolationist but sometimes you have to stay within your own home.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Countries have become more isolationist manufacturing-wise, so they need to generate more electricity locally.

From Barron's

The first concerns Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, which supports an isolationist U.S. foreign policy.

From The Wall Street Journal

The document is “far less isolationist than one could have expected—and far more positive about US partners and allies,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s often said that Hoxha turned Albania into a Balkan North Korea, but he was, in truth, more isolationist even than the North Korean Kims.

From The Wall Street Journal

isolationist

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