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, narrow, narrow-minded, prejudiced, small-mindedWords Related to narrow–minded hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary; blindfolded, blinkered, insular, parochial, provincial; biased, one-sided, partial, partisanNear Antonyms of narrow–minded extreme, progressive, radical; impartial, objective, unbiasedAntonyms of narrow–minded broad-minded, liberal, open-minded, tolerant, unprejudiced

2 not broad or open in views or opinions narrow-minded people who instinctively feared and opposed any and all immigrants Synonyms of narrow–minded illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, little, narrow-minded, parochial, petty, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small, small-mindedWords Related to narrow–minded 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, unsophisticatedNear Antonyms of narrow–minded impartial, nonpartisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced; freethinkingAntonyms of narrow–minded broad-minded, catholic, cosmopolitan, liberal, open, open-minded, receptive, tolerant