clannish
clannish
adjectiveDefinition of CLANNISH
bound together by feelings of very close association <a clannish family that can be rather cool to outsiders>
Related Words bosom, chummy, close, familiar, friendly, inseparable, intimate, pack [chiefly Scottish], pally, palsy, palsy-walsy [slang], thick, tight; exclusive, snobbish, snobby; incestuous; forbidding, inhospitable, unfriendly
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