narrow-minded

Speech parts

1. narrow-minded - Adjective

2. narrow-minded - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean.

Alternative names

narrow minded

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Examples

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. James D. Watson

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. Benjamin Disraeli

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes. Mike Epps

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work. Richard Donner

A sensible enemy is better than a narrow-minded friend. Algerian Proverb

The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences. Chinese Proverb

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