parochial

parochial

adjective

Definition of PAROCHIAL

not broad or open in views or opinions <the parochial outlook of the people in that rural backwater>

Synonyms illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, little, narrow-minded, parochial, petty, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small, small-minded

Related Words inflexible, ironbound, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, set, stubborn, unyielding, wrongheaded; bigoted, intolerant; biased, discriminating, discriminatory, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced; brass bound, hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary, stodgy, straitlaced (or straightlaced), stuffy; dogmatic (also dogmatical), opinionated, opinionative; limited; hick, unsophisticated

Near Antonyms impartial, nonpartisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced; freethinking

Antonyms broad-minded, catholic, cosmopolitan, liberal, open, open-minded, receptive, tolerant