small-minded
/smɔːlˈmʌɪndɪd
/adjective
Having or showing rigid opinions or a narrow outlook; petty: my family are small-minded provincials...
- I mean, if this were Wales say, or Scotland, I dare say I could rabbit away about small-minded, provincial parochialism.
- Every once in a blue moon, something will come along that is so immediately affecting and amazing that our usual sarcasm-laced tone just seems petty and small-minded.
- That was not the action of a small-minded or petty individual.
Synonyms
narrow-minded, petty-minded, petty, mean, mean-spirited, mean-minded, uncharitable, ungenerous, grudging, close-minded, short-sighted, myopic, blinkered, inward-looking, narrow, conventional, unimaginative, parochial, provincial, insular, small-town, localist;
intolerant, illiberal, reactionary, conservative, hidebound, dyed-in-the-wool, diehard, limited, restricted, set in one's ways, inflexible, dogmatic, rigid, entrenched, prejudiced, bigoted, biased, partisan;
British parish-pump, blimpish;
French borné
North American informal jerkwater
rare claustral
Derivatives
small-mindedly
- But who is standing up to our MPs as they hack, small-mindedly, in different ways, at our freedom?
- Ignore the cries of those who would small-mindedly label you a bar geek and think of the benefits that being a member of this association has for you as a lawyer, regardless of your specialty.
- Both agree that one should simply celebrate the fact that there are books without small-mindedly picking apart those one dislikes, especially in public or, worst of all, in print.
small-mindedness
/ noun ...- As one who has gorged himself on Mencken, I can sympathize with the biographers who rushed in to appraise Mencken's life and then turned away, disgusted by his cruelty, small-mindedness, and transparent bigotry.
- The players here may be more ‘decent’, may be older and more female, but the small-mindedness and pettiness is the same.
- This kind of small-mindedness and intolerance is what keeps people like the two of you from learning anything.
Rhymes
- straight man
- straightness
- straight off (or out)
- straight (or right) away
- straight pool
- straight razor
- straight shooter
- straight-shooting
- straight-six
- straight stitch
- straight-talking
- straight-thinking
- straight time
- straight up
- straightway
- strain
- strainable
- strain at the leash
- strained
- strain energy
- strainer
- strain every nerve
- strain gauge
- strait
- straiten