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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island;
- Example: "insular territories"
- Example: "Hawaii's insular culture"

2. suggestive of the isolated life of an island;
- Example: "an exceedingly insular man so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels;

3. narrowly restricted in outlook or scope;
- Example: "little sympathy with parochial mentality"
- Example: "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
[syn: insular, parochial]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Insular \In"su*lar\, a. [L. insularis, fr. insula island: cf. F. insulaire. See Isle.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices. [1913 Webster] The penury of insular conversation. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Insular \In"su*lar\, n. An islander. [R.] --Berkeley. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

insular adj 1: relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture" 2: suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels 3: narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners" [syn: insular, parochial]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

160 Moby Thesaurus words for "insular": alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, asunder, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, bipartite, borne, circumscribed, closed, companionless, confined, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, detached, dichotomous, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distinct, divergent, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exotic, extraneous, fanatical, foreign, friendless, geographically limited, hidebound, homeless, illiberal, in a backwater, in two, inadmissible, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, insulated, irrelative, island, island-dotted, island-dweller, islanded, islander, islandish, islandlike, islandman, islandologist, islandy, islesman, isleted, isolated, kithless, limited, little, little-minded, local, localized, lone, lonely, lonesome, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, noncohesive, of a place, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, parochial, partitioned, petty, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, provincial, purblind, quarantined, regional, remote, removed, restricted, restrictive, retired, rootless, seagirt, secluded, seclusive, sectarian, sectional, segregate, segregated, segregative, select, selective, separate, separated, separative, shortsighted, shut off, single-handed, small, small-minded, small-town, snobbish, solitary, solo, straitlaced, strange, stuffy, topical, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattached, unattended, uncatholic, uncharitable, unconnected, unescorted, unfrequented, ungenerous, unjoined, unliberal, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited, vernacular, withdrawn, xenophobic