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insular 音标拼音: ['ɪnsəlɚ] a. 岛的,岛民的,岛特有的,孤立的,保守的 岛的,岛民的,岛特有的,孤立的,保守的 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" [ synonym: { insular}, { parochial}] 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]
Insular \ In" su* lar\, n. An islander. [ R.] -- Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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