Definition for Insular:

• Insularity.

Synonyms for Insular:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • insular.
  •clannish (adjective)
  • cliquish,
  • restrictive,
  • unreceptive,
  • associative.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • rubest,
  • most straight-laced,
  • most doctrinal,
  • hidebound,
  • straight laced,
  • in flexible,
  • obstinate,
  • stereo-typed,
  • most straightlaced,
  • more straight-laced,
  • rube,
  • most isolationist,
  • lamest,
  • up-tight,
  • stereo typed,
  • in-flexible,
  • more straightlaced,
  • most straight laced,
  • more isolationist,
  • up tight,
  • de-mure,
  • more doctrinal,
  • de mure,
  • more straight laced.
  •local (adjective)
  • more parish,
  • townest,
  • more neighborhood,
  • most district,
  • most parish,
  • more district,
  • most neighborhood,
  • more divisional,
  • most divisional.
  •narrow-minded (adjective)
  • confined,
  • sequestered,
  • circumscribed,
  • restricted,
  • contracted,
  • inward-looking,
  • cut off,
  • Unenlarged,
  • opinionated,
  • closed.
  •parochial (adjective)
  • more inward-looking,
  • more inwardlooking,
  • most inward-looking,
  • inward looking,
  • most inwardlooking,
  • most inward looking,
  • inwardlooking,
  • more inward looking.
  •provincial (adjective)
  • un sophisticated,
  • un informed,
  • un-informed,
  • un polished.
  •secluded (adjective)
  • Screened,
  • blockaded,
  • tucked away,
  • secluse,
  • off the beaten track,
  • off beaten track.
  •sectarian (adjective)
  • non-conformist,
  • factional.
  •small-town (adjective)
  • smalltown.

• n.

  •Romance language (noun)
  • continentals,
  • frenches,
  • latins.
  •
  • cosmopolitan,
  • artistic,
  • refinement,
  • refined,
  • barbarian,
  • highbrow.
  •
  • near,
  • isolated,
  • lonesome,
  • upper,
  • obscure,
  • back,
  • lonely,
  • remote,
  • removed,
  • solitary,
  • peninsular.
  •
  • narrow,
  • limited.
  •biased (noun)
  • illiberal,
  • bigoted.
  •insular (noun)
  • private.
  •isolated (noun)
  • separate,
  • alone,
  • separated,
  • detached.
  •languages derived from latin (noun)
  • romance language.

• v.

  •mean (verb)
  • petty.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lock away,
  • withdrawn,
  • coastal,
  • stay-at-home,
  • artsy-fartsy,
  • reclusive,
  • retiring,
  • hermetic,
  • arty,
  • landward,
  • artsy,
  • maritime.
  •
  • onshore,
  • sophistication,
  • inland,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • sophisticated,
  • antisocial,
  • self-contained,
  • ashore,
  • outlying.
  •
  • conventional.
  •
  • withdrawal,
  • withdraw.
  •biased
  • prejudiced.
  •british
  • english.
  •Other relevant words:
  • irrespective,
  • unsophisticated,
  • disconnected,
  • incommensurable,
  • dissever,
  • partitioned,
  • solo,
  • unaccompanied,
  • divergent,
  • discrete,
  • dry land,
  • segregated,
  • distinct,
  • Discretely,
  • preventive,
  • island,
  • unaided,
  • uncultivated,
  • loose,
  • mean,
  • alienated,
  • expressly,
  • autonomously,
  • emit,
  • in two,
  • unyoke,
  • separative,
  • lone,
  • exceptional,
  • detach,
  • close,
  • rigid,
  • multipartite,
  • partial,
  • singly,
  • unfrequented,
  • remove,
  • strange,
  • denizen,
  • seclude,
  • constricted,
  • small,
  • apart,
  • straitlaced,
  • secede,
  • stuffy,
  • Companionless,
  • inadmissible,
  • adrift,
  • land,
  • disjoined,
  • Excluding,
  • shut off,
  • divide,
  • homeless,
  • bipartite,
  • get,
  • disentangle,
  • isle,
  • picayune,
  • fanatical,
  • cramped,
  • cannibal,
  • other,
  • separation,
  • thematic,
  • individually,
  • deaf,
  • terra firma,
  • odd,
  • specifically,
  • snobbish,
  • Islanded,
  • authoritarian,
  • peculiarly,
  • curiously,
  • Unseconded,
  • first and last,
  • piece,
  • island-dweller,
  • insulation,
  • severally,
  • unrelated,
  • foreign,
  • uncultured,
  • bigot,
  • disconnect,
  • unassisted,
  • unassociated,
  • Unallied,
  • diverge,
  • Reft,
  • away,
  • stiff,
  • archipelagic,
  • short-sighted,
  • unworldly,
  • unusually,
  • islanders,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • blinkered,
  • Irrelative,
  • unconnected,
  • straggling,
  • singularly,
  • unattended,
  • intolerant,
  • archipelagian,
  • ground,
  • in a backwater,
  • Exclusory,
  • secrete,
  • preclusive,
  • inhabitant,
  • little,
  • roughly,
  • aloof,
  • unchangeable,
  • disjunct,
  • dogmatic,
  • far between,
  • ungenerous,
  • single-handed,
  • unescorted,
  • biased,
  • islander,
  • breakup,
  • sectional,
  • vernacular,
  • select,
  • isolate,
  • aside,
  • extraneous,
  • disjoin,
  • purblind,
  • Borne,
  • regional,
  • localised,
  • disassociate,
  • incomparable,
  • nearsighted,
  • solid ground,
  • disunite,
  • singular,
  • detachment,
  • rift,
  • one-sided,
  • independently,
  • shortsighted,
  • alien,
  • prohibitive,
  • insulate,
  • seagirt,
  • off the beaten path,
  • sequester,
  • markedly,
  • particularly,
  • genteel,
  • unattached,
  • exclusive,
  • unsupported,
  • Insulated,
  • friendless,
  • uncouple,
  • segregate,
  • sequestrate,
  • unrepeated,
  • xenophobic,
  • cleave,
  • asunder,
  • Islandy,
  • insularity,
  • dissociate,
  • outlandish,
  • segregative,
  • arbitrary,
  • Unjoined,
  • free,
  • rootless,
  • dissociated,
  • disjunctive,
  • insulant,
  • closed-minded,
  • uncharitable,
  • separately,
  • stiff-necked,
  • small-minded,
  • lilliputian,
  • prescriptive,
  • independent,
  • stubborn,
  • secant,
  • dweller,
  • immovable,
  • prejudicial,
  • islet,
  • sever,
  • discontinuous,
  • Unannexed,
  • personally,
  • disengagement,
  • incomprehensive,
  • selective,
  • quarantined,
  • disengage,
  • unique,
  • retired,
  • incoherent,
  • fanatic,
  • Seclusive,
  • conservative,
  • abstract,
  • azygous,
  • disparate,
  • unvisited,
  • ethnocentric,
  • exotic,
  • unchanging,
  • close-minded,
  • unaffiliated,
  • dichotomous,
  • Solus,
  • intractable,
  • narrow gauge,
  • earth.

Paraphrases for Insular:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    parochial.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    isolated, island, narrow-minded, blinkered.
  • Proper noun, singular
    island, Islands.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    island.

Antonyms for Insular:

• adj.

  • narrow-minded
    broad-minded, unbiased, unprejudiced.
  • Other antonyms:
    nonpartisan, freethinking, liberal, tolerant, objective, catholic, impartial, open-minded, public, receptive, open.

Insular Sentence Examples:

• We became more and more insular even about our continental conquests; we stood upon our island as if on an anchored ship.

• Then, when we had rubbed off our insular corners against the Great French Politeness, and perfected our grasp of the language in talk with the Agenois villagers, we proposed to drop gently into Pau, armed at all points, and scarcely distinguishable from Frenchmen.