BLINKERED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

blinkered

adjective

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as in parochial

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Recent Examples of blinkered At times, Fedorova’s valiantly open-minded kinksters can seem blinkered in their own way. — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026 After presenting a morass of rich themes, Nwosu teases out a small, surprising finale that transcends the blinkered concerns driving her protagonist. — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2026 The variety of politics that preoccupied the literary scene in New York turned out to be fractious, blinkered, and less than helpful on almost every front, including the artistic. — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 By that blinkered calculus, an informative podcast will always trump music. — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blinkered

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Several residents who spoke at the meetings characterized the opposition as a vocal minority of residents who have fixated on a few mostly parochial issues.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
All but one, Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, were either parochial or had some religious affiliation.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2026

Definition of parochial

Adjective

And so there does appear to be an emotional network in the brain — areas like the amygdala, the anterior cingulate cortex, insular cortex, and some other areas that seem to confer an emotional component of pain.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026
Kauai, a rural island of 70,000 people, is tremendously insular and interconnected.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of insular

Adjective

Most projects, after all, start small—a municipal equipment contract, a provincial memorandum, a maintenance agreement.

— Natalia Cote-Muñoz, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2026
Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial emergency service, said the attacker struck dozens of people who were chanting antimilitant slogans and demanding peace.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of provincial

Adjective

And while a few of its more hidebound customs can present something of an endurance test—outside of Chicagoland, nobody actually enjoys Take Me Out to the Ball Game—fans would probably riot if MLB managers stopped wearing their team’s uniform.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Trump expresses confidence that his nominee to become Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, can unleash an economic bonanza by jettisoning what the president sees as the central bank’s hidebound reluctance to slash interest rates.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026

Definition of hidebound

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