单词	hidebound
释义	hideboundhide‧bound /ˈhaɪdbaʊnd/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES hidebound bureaucrats It was predictable that the medical establishment, so hidebound and reactionary, would reject Dr Stone's ideas. The hidebound attitudes of Russia's powerful aristocracy made any kind of progress impossible. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Football is often hidebound by facts. It provides the leaders of an organization with a convenient rationale for their hidebound maintenance-oriented policies. Life was not hidebound by rules or convention. The composers now working there have brought no preconceptions or hidebound conventions. Their class system was hidebound, their rulers unjustifiably smug, their attitude to rising talent blinkered. There are a lot of missing links between design and product development because of manufacturing's hidebound attitude. They succeeded for a time-but at a cost for the hidebound Congress. Whether the conservative, hidebound publishing establishment will treat such works with the seriousness they deserve is of course another matter. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorunwilling to accept changes or new ideas► have fixed ideas someone who has fixed ideas has opinions and attitudes that never change, and often seem unreasonable: · These old teachers tend to have very fixed ideas.have fixed ideas about: · He has very fixed ideas about the way a wife should behave. ► reactionary strongly opposed to change, especially social or political change, in a way that you think is unreasonable: · The seventy-year-old president has been condemned as reactionary by his radical opponents.· He is known for his reactionary views on immigration and the reintroduction of the death penalty.· Cultural attitudes to women were more reactionary than in most of Western Europe. ► entrenched entrenched attitudes are ones that people have had for a long time and are very difficult to change: entrenched in: · The unequal treatment of men and women in the labour market is deeply entrenched in our culture. firmly/deeply entrenched: · In the small towns racial prejudice was deeply entrenched.entrenched attitudes/habits/beliefs etc: · The attitudes of adults to the mentally handicapped tend to be firmly entrenched, and difficult to change. ► stick in the mud informal someone who has old-fashioned attitudes and is unwilling to change or try something new: · Come on, don't be such an old stick in the mud.· She accused him of being a stick in the mud. ► diehard someone who still refuses to change their beliefs even when most other people have changed them: · Apart from a few union diehards most of the men have accepted the new productivity agreement. ► hidebound a group of people or an institution that is hidebound has very old-fashioned ideas and attitudes and is unwilling to change them: · It was predictable that the medical establishment, so hidebound and reactionary, would reject Dr Stone's ideas.· The hidebound attitudes of Russia's powerful aristocracy made any kind of progress impossible. having old-fashioned attitudes and ideas – used to show disapproval:  hidebound reactionaries
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