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narrow-minded

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of narrow-minded

1 unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
  • Integration of the public schools was once vigorously opposed by narrow-minded people who feared social change.
Synonyms of narrow-minded

bigoted, illiberal, intolerant, narrow, prejudiced, small-minded
Words Related to narrow-minded

conservative, hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary

blindfolded, blinkered, insular, parochial, provincial

biased, one-sided, partial, partisan
Near Antonyms of narrow-minded

extreme, progressive, radical

impartial, objective, unbiased
Antonyms of narrow-minded

broad-minded, liberal, open-minded, tolerant, unprejudiced
2 not broad or open in views or opinions
  • a narrow-minded person who only listens to those who agree with him
Synonyms of narrow-minded

illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, little, narrow, parochial, petty, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small, small-minded
Words Related to narrow-minded

inflexible, ironbound, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, set, stubborn, unyielding, wrongheaded

bigoted, intolerant

biased, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced

brass bound, hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary, stodgy, straitlaced (or straightlaced), stuffy

dogmatic (also dogmatical), opinionated
Near Antonyms of narrow-minded

impartial, nonpartisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced

freethinking
Antonyms of narrow-minded

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

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