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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | local |
| Synonyms: | bounded, civic, confined, district, divisional, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, narrow-minded, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, territorial, town, vernacular |
| 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: | 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: | localized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | local |
| Synonyms: | bounded, civic, confined, district, divisional, geographical, insular, limited, narrow, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, restricted, sectarian, sectional, small-town, territorial, town, vernacular |
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