Narrow Minded

Word NARROW MINDED
Character 13
Hyphenation nar row-mind ed
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Definitions and meanings of "Narrow Minded"

What do we mean by narrow minded?

Lacking tolerance, breadth of view, or sympathy; petty. adjective

Of confined views or sentiments; bigoted; illiberal.

Of narrow mental scope; lacking tolerance or breadth of view; illiberal; mean. Opposite of broad-minded, open-minded, liberal. adjective

Capable of being shocked by behavior of others. Opposite of unshockable. adjective

Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas adjective

Intolerant, bigoted or prejudiced adjective

Rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines adjective

Lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view adjective

Capable of being shocked adjective

Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas.

Intolerant, bigoted or prejudiced.

Adjective narrow-minded (comparative more narrow-minded, superlative most narrow-minded) having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas intolerant, bigoted or prejudiced Urban Dictionary

A person who does not want to hear the other side of the argument. But in our postmodern world people accuse anyone who has firm beliefs of being narrow minded. Urban Dictionary

A person or persons who cannot see beyond their own set of values and/or will not accept them. Is often related to religious matters, where people cannot accept the other religion's beliefs. It often happens where one is in ignorance. Urban Dictionary

Intolerant of another's views. This is a mentality that is often associated with cliques and coteries. A narrow-minded person will even accuse someone of being "stupid" or ((name some other bad trait here, even "narrow-minded" itself!)) the other person who expresses a viewpoint or reason for believing otherwise than the narrow-minded one's views. Or, in some cases, a narrow-minded person might even go to the extreme of primate-like behavior, such as throwing food or insults at the other person, because the narrow-minded one doesn't have a cohesive argument to counteract what the other had said in the discussion or debate. Interesting thing: people who accuse others of being narrow-minded are often quite narrow-minded themselves. cliques, coteries, narrowminded, narrow minded, narrow-minded, narrow mind, intolerant Urban Dictionary

A label people stick on anyone who firmly believes anything at all. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Narrow Minded

The word "narrow-minded" in example sentences

Many of us came to Mexico to be a part of that culture and get away from the somewhat narrow-minded American view of the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ignorant, narrow-minded bigots fueling this campaign simply refuse to accept the outcome of the 2008 election; that there's a black family in the White House and a black man in the Oval Office. ❋ Andy Ostroy (2011)

Pat Buchanan is always there to speak up for the narrow-minded amongus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Far from espousing any political agenda, China seems focused on narrow-minded business in Latin America and hardly seems interested in counteracting the U.S. or overtly taking the side of the embattled Chávez regime. ❋ Nikolas Kozloff (2011)

Sadly enough, there are still enough narrow-minded, misguided Americans who will continue to waste time and money on this wasteland from Alaska. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your March 8 editorial, " Promoting Democracy in America ," was misleading, narrow-minded and naïve. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My feeling is that the problems with the US criminal justice system are sufficiently broad-based that a narrow-minded focus on capital punishment is a bit misguided. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anything said by anyone other than white, conservative/narrow-minded men bugs the hell out of this fool, Graham and his fellow uptights from the south ... and that's coming from me, a white male. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I would have embraced him, but he was ever a narrow-minded, suspicious man, and he drew away from me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He can't see the big picture, Mr. Morita said, echoing charges that the ministry was narrow-minded in seeking tax increases to fix the state finances at the expense of hurting an economy still reeliing from the impact of the March disaster. ❋ George Nishiyama (2011)

Barack can't take his wife to dinner or hold hands without you narrow-minded warmongers pooping in your pants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Far from espousing any political agenda, China seems focused on narrow-minded business in Latin America and hardly seems interested in counteracting the U.S. or overtly taking the side of the embattled Chávez regime. ❋ Nikolas Kozloff (2011)

“My feeling is that the problems with the US criminal justice system are sufficiently broad-based that a narrow-minded focus on capital punishment is a bit misguided.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

She longs to see the world and is a natural traveler, independent, curious and bored with gossipy, narrow-minded English life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Saying J.J. Abrams is more deserving because he went from TV to film is quite a narrow-minded statement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conservatives are narrow-minded, greedy and shallow, have not an altruistic bone in their bodies and are racists, homophobes and mean-spirited. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When they say "[Great minds]" do they mean great as in intelligent or great as in significant? Is this quote about how smart someone is or simply about the their significance in life/the world? If you think it means neither of these things then [let me know] what you think the quote truly means. [Great Minds] Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”narrow-minded ❋ PineappleJuice (2015)

You'll hear alot of people say ' Christians are narrow minded people '. But the funny thing is these same people are themselves narrow minded and [bigoted] and [intolerant] ( there's a popular one )of Christianity. They [contradict] themselves. ❋ Brian L. (2006)

"YOU [NARROW MINDED] PIECE OF F--KING S--T, CANT YOU SEE HOW YOU ARE CONTRADICTING YOURSELF?? SEE SOMEONE ELSE'S SIDE FOR [HELL'S] SAKE!!" My brother can be [narrow minded] because he thinks that all gays have HIV, and that it is stupid to be gay, and you always get AIDS when you [butt-fuck] someone. ❋ Gloriphobia (2004)

Aura [hurled] food, insults, and other [sorts] of shit at Anne because the two women didn't agree. (Aura did that because she can't stand anyone who wouldn't believe the same thing as she does, or refuses to flatter her.) [Aura's] very narrow minded. ❋ TheDragonessa (2005)

In today's [wishy-washy] society, anyone who has [the guts] to stand up for what they believe in when (esp. what they believe in is [unpopular]) is labelled as narrow minded because everyone else is so open minded that, in many cases, their brains have fallen out. ❋ D-Shiznit (2005)

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