narrow-mindedadjective
uk/ˌnær.əʊˈmaɪn.dɪd/us/ˌner.oʊˈmaɪn.dɪd/disapprovingC1 not willing to accept ideas or ways of behaving that are different from your own:
narrow-minded opinions/views
a narrow-minded person
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Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinker
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerance
- intolerant
- myopic
- parochial
- petty
- prim
- prissy
- set
- short-sighted
- strait-laced
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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narrow-mindedness
noun [ U ] uk/ˌnær.əʊˈmaɪn.dɪd.nəs/us/ˌner.oʊˈmaɪn.dɪd.nəs/
He wanted to escape from the narrow-mindedness of the people in the small town where he grew up.