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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.]
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   1. Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or
      possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an
      insular climate, fauna, etc.
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   2. Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow;
      circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits,
      opinions, or prejudices.
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            The penury of insular conversation.   --Johnson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Insular \In"su*lar\, n.
   An islander. [R.] --Berkeley.
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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]