insular

Day 75Level 2

IN-suh-lur

narrow-minded

pertaining to islands; narrow-minded

Part of Speech: adjective

Synonyms:

parochial, detached, isolated, prejudiced

Antonyms:

unbiased, broad-minded

Example Sentence:

We need much more economic diversity, and we need to become much less insular politically.

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study of origin and history of words