insular

Speech parts

1. insular - Noun

2. insular - Adjective

3. insular - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.

Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.

An islander.

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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. Benjamin Disraeli

The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance. Ralph Vaughan Williams

I say that if England takes due advantage of her insular position, and confines herself to her own affairs, and does not run into needless and rash disputes with other countries, there never was a time when she stood so free from danger of war as at the present moment. Richard Cobden

Not unlike urban gangs, police, carnival workers and certain other culturally marginalized guilds, the US porn industry is occluded and insular in a way that makes it seem like high school. David Foster Wallace

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. Goldwin Smith

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style. Tyler Cowen

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