'Insular' definitions:
Definition of 'insular'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"
adjective
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
adjective
Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners" [syn: insular, parochial]
Definition of 'Insular'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Insular'
From: GCIDE
- Insular \In"su*lar\, n. An islander. [R.] --Berkeley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insular'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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