blinkered

adjective

Definition of blinkerednext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinkered
  1. parochial
  2. insular
  3. provincial
  4. reactionary
  5. hidebound
Adjective
  • Since 2015, a flurry of cases has decided issues as parochial as how much individual athletes are paid out of broadcast revenues and how long student athletes are eligible to play.
    — Sen. Rand Paul OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Back then the age of discovery was at its peak, and startling new information about what had previously been a very parochial planet was flooding into the academies of Europe and the Americas.
    — Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of parochial
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  • That rarely happens with Idaho’s insular faith-healing communities.
    — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is designed as an action flick as well as a portrait of a family dealing with tragedy and an insider’s look at an insular community that mocks harmful stereotypes without perpetrating them.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of insular
Adjective
  • The government had spent the better part of a year, for instance, decentralizing its political and military bureaucracy so that provincial governors and military commanders could operate without instructions from top leaders.
    — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Mamdani and Chow swapped notes on dealing with the constraints placed on them by their state and provincial governors, and on their respective battles over renters’ rights and the high costs of living in their cities.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of provincial
Adjective
  • We’ll always be thought of as too conservative, too dumb, too reactionary, too violent by too many.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • My perspective and approach has been to try and be as measured as possible and not be as reactionary.
    — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of reactionary
Adjective
  • Both were in their thirties, and saw themselves as innovative leaders cutting through hidebound bureaucracies.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The discipline and economy of Rosenwald’s philanthropy also provide a chastening contrast to our current hidebound efforts to help people.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of hidebound

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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinkered. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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