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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic, home |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, autochthonous, belonging, endemic, from, homegrown, homemade, indigenous, inland, internal, local, municipal, national, original, primary, primeval, primitive, regional, related, vernacular |
| Antonyms: | foreign, outside |
| Main Entry: | parochial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, restricted |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, insular, inward-looking, limited, local, narrow, petty, prejudiced, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, shallow, small-minded, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, liberal, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | particular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exact, specific |
| Synonyms: | accurate, appropriate, blow-by-blow, circumstantial, clocklike, detailed, distinct, especial, express, full, individual, intrinsic, itemized, limited, local, meticulous, minute, painstaking, particularized, peculiar, precise, scrupulous, selective, singular, special, thorough, topical |
| Antonyms: | general, imprecise, indefinite, inexact |
| Main Entry: | peculiar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | characteristic, distinguishing |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, diacritic, diagnostic, distinct, distinctive, endemic, exclusive, idiosyncratic, individual, intrinsic, local, particular, personal, private, proper, restricted, special, specific, typical, unique |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, uncharacteristic |
| 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: | resident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person living in a particular place |
| Synonyms: | citizen, denizen, dweller, habitant, householder, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, liver, local, lodger, native, occupant, resider, squatter, suburbanite, tenant, urbanite |
| 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: | sectional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | localized, divided |
| Synonyms: | exclusive, factional, local, narrow, partial, regional, selfish, separate, separatist |
| Antonyms: | general, universal, widespread |
| Main Entry: | union |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with shared interest, cause |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, brotherhood, club, coalition, confederacy, confederation, congress, employees, federation, guild, labor union, league, local, order, sisterhood, society, sodality, syndicate, trade union |
| Antonyms: | management |
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