Synonyms of narrow-minded

narrow-minded

adjective

1

as in conservative

unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints

it took a while for some of the more narrow-minded members of management to be persuaded to modernize the dress code

Synonyms & Similar Words

• conservative
• bigoted
• intolerant
• prejudiced
• narrow
• small-minded
• illiberal
• provincial
• parochial
• reactionary
• insular
• hidebound
• old-fashioned
• partisan
• blinkered
• biased
• partial
• blindfolded
• one-sided

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liberal
• tolerant
• extreme
• radical
• progressive
• unprejudiced
• broad-minded
• open-minded
• objective
• impartial
• unbiased

2

as in parochial

not broad or open in views or opinions

narrow-minded people who instinctively feared and shunned those from different cultures

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parochial
• small
• narrow
• petty
• insular
• little
• provincial
• stubborn
• sectarian
• small-minded
• illiberal
• bigoted
• picayune
• rigid
• Lilliputian
• wrongheaded
• obstinate
• partisan
• intolerant
• discriminatory
• reactionary
• biased
• dogmatic
• prejudiced
• obdurate
• opinionated
• limited
• opinionative
• hidebound
• inflexible
• dogmatical
• ironbound
• stodgy
• discriminating
• jaundiced
• unyielding
• old-fashioned
• partial
• unsophisticated
• straitlaced
• one-sided
• stuffy
• straightlaced
• set
• hick
• brassbound

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liberal
• tolerant
• open
• cosmopolitan
• receptive
• catholic
• objective
• impartial
• broad-minded
• unbiased
• unprejudiced
• open-minded
• nonpartisan
• freethinking