Parochial

Word PAROCHIAL
Character 9
Hyphenation pa ro chi al
Pronunciations /pəˈɹəʊkɪəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Parochial"

What do we mean by parochial?

Of, relating to, supported by, or located in a parish. adjective

Of or relating to parochial schools. adjective

Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; provincial. adjective

Of or pertaining to a parish: as, a parochial custom.

Local; provincial; narrow.

Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish. adjective

Limited; narrow; having or characterized by narrow interests centered on oneself or one's local community; narrow-minded; provincial. adjective

Pertaining to a parish. adjective

Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook. adjective

Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope adjective

Relating to or supported by or located in a parish adjective

Pertaining to a parish.

Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Parochial

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The word "parochial" in example sentences

No one makes this point better than Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, who often discusses the power of storytelling and its capacity to bring us outside and beyond what she calls our parochial "circles." ❋ Joseph Smigelski (2011)

Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His patronizing view of peasants, with their relative advantage in parochial skills, is quite common. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not at all – most of as working class or lower middle class kids were privately educated in parochial schools that our parents scrimped to pay for, then benefited from the public colleges in our states. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No matter how wide-ranging their selections, American festivals — New York, Chicago, San Francisco, even Sundance — remain parochial events, but Cannes is bigger than the city that bears its name. ❋ KaneCitizen (2007)

My friends in parochial school remained status quo. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He drew attention to Powell's remarks last week at a convention of minority journalists that he was obliged as secretary not to take part in "parochial debate." ❋ Unknown (2004)

Ncube was also critical of South African journalists, whom he described as parochial and ignorant about the region and the rest of the continent. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Informing this celebration of the parochial is that peculiar product of the Romantic era, a rhetoric of English nationhood that attempts to dissociate national feeling from precisely the widened circle of sympathy with which we might otherwise associate one's love of one's country. ❋ Unknown (2000)

But Fitzmyer's answers lack the brevity and the certainty, the Thomistic elegance and the sometimes cinematic splendor, of the answers that I learned as a child in parochial school, of the vaguely more sophisticated answers I received at subsequent times in my education, and of the answers that, frankly, one still hears from the pulpit. ❋ Unknown (1986)

This environment, more fractional and more parochial, is tending to enhance protectionist and nationalist, anti-market, anti-business and antimultinational sentiments that threaten more than our ideological orientation; they threaten the very system on which the Western nations have built their success. ❋ Unknown (1981)

Coburn called the bill an «anti-stimulus» that will erect new barriers to energy exploration and squander billions of taxpayer dollars on what he described as parochial programs and frivolous pet projects.

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