Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking tolerance, breadth of view, or sympathy; petty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of confined views or sentiments; bigoted; illiberal.
Wiktionary
- adj. having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas
- adj. intolerant, bigoted or prejudiced
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of narrow mental scope; lacking tolerance or breadth of view; illiberal; mean. Opposite of
broad-minded ,open-minded ,liberal . - adj. Capable of being shocked by behavior of others. Opposite of
unshockable .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines
- adj. lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
- adj. capable of being shocked
Etymologies
- From narrow + minded. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Saying J.J. Abrams is more deserving because he went from TV to film is quite a narrow-minded statement.”
“My feeling is that the problems with the US criminal justice system are sufficiently broad-based that a narrow-minded focus on capital punishment is a bit misguided.”
““My feeling is that the problems with the US criminal justice system are sufficiently broad-based that a narrow-minded focus on capital punishment is a bit misguided.””
“Pat Buchanan is always there to speak up for the narrow-minded amongus.”
“Anything said by anyone other than white, conservative/narrow-minded men bugs the hell out of this fool, Graham and his fellow uptights from the south ... and that's coming from me, a white male.”
GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me'
“Conservatives are narrow-minded, greedy and shallow, have not an altruistic bone in their bodies and are racists, homophobes and mean-spirited.”
“Barack can't take his wife to dinner or hold hands without you narrow-minded warmongers pooping in your pants.”
“Sadly enough, there are still enough narrow-minded, misguided Americans who will continue to waste time and money on this wasteland from Alaska.”
“She longs to see the world and is a natural traveler, independent, curious and bored with gossipy, narrow-minded English life.”
“The ignorant, narrow-minded bigots fueling this campaign simply refuse to accept the outcome of the 2008 election; that there's a black family in the White House and a black man in the Oval Office.”
The Huffington Post: Andy Ostroy: Obama Releases His Birth Certificate, and America Loses
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Compound Adjectives
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