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: parochial ]

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