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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Christopher Hitchens

Meaning of "narrow-minded" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NARROW-MINDED

narrow-minded play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NARROW-MINDED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Narrow-Minded is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NARROW-MINDED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the study of clear and unclear thinking. It is primarily used in the field of education, and not in psychology. The National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking defines critical thinking as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

Definition of narrow-minded in the English dictionary

The definition of narrow-minded in the dictionary is having a biased or illiberal viewpoint; bigoted, intolerant, or prejudiced.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NARROW-MINDED

narratory
narre
narrow
narrow boat
narrow gauge
narrow money
narrow seas
narrow squeak
narrow-gauge line
narrow-mindedly
narrow-mindedness
narrow-shouldered
narrowband
narrowcast
narrowcasting
narrowing
narrowish
narrowly
narrowness
narrows

WORDS THAT END LIKE NARROW-MINDED

absent-minded
bloody-minded
dirty-minded
double-minded
evil-minded
extended
fair-minded
liberal-minded
like-minded
long-winded
minded
open-minded
right-minded
simple-minded
single-minded
small-minded
sober-minded
strong-minded
tough-minded
weak-minded
winded

Synonyms and antonyms of narrow-minded in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NARROW-MINDED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «narrow-minded» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of narrow-minded

Translation of «narrow-minded» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NARROW-MINDED

Find out the translation of narrow-minded to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of narrow-minded from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «narrow-minded» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

小心眼的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

intolerante
570 millions of speakers

English

narrow-minded
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ओछा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضَيّقُ الْعَقْلِ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

косный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bitolado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছোট মনের অধিকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

borné
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

berfikiran sempit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

engstirnig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

了見の狭い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마음이 좁은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sempit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiển cận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறுகிய எண்ணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संकुचित मनाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eski kafalı, bağnaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

di vedute ristrette
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ograniczony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обмежений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

îngust la minte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στενόμυαλος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eng
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trångsynt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trangsynt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of narrow-minded

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NARROW-MINDED»

The term «narrow-minded» is regularly used and occupies the 74.188 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NARROW-MINDED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «narrow-minded» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «narrow-minded» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about narrow-minded

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10 QUOTES WITH «NARROW-MINDED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word narrow-minded.
1
Aharon Appelfeld
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
2
Bo Bice
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'
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Paul Bloom
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.
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Bob Brown
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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J. M. Coetzee
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Richard Donner
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.
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Mike Epps
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.
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Christopher Hitchens
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
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Nouriel Roubini
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NARROW-MINDED»

Discover the use of narrow-minded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to narrow-minded and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Synonym Finder
4. narrow-minded, prejudiced, illiberal. See narrow- minded. 5. exclusive, exclusory, proscriptive, select, selective; limiting, restricting, defining, restrictive, definitive. 6. meticulous, exacting, scrupulous, conscientious; punctilious, particular, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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Becoming a Contagious Christian: Communicating Your Faith in ...
Isn't that narrow-minded? • It's not narrow-minded if someone who has the credentials to know says it's the only solution. For example, if a pilot says the plane must land on that one narrow runway or we're all going to die, it's true that he's ...
Mark Mittelberg, Bill Hybels, Lee Strobel, 2001
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A Grammar of Afrikaans
3) when adjectives derived from the past participles of historically weak verbs are inflected or nominalised, e.g. verslaafIverslaafde 'addicted/addict', verkramp I verkrampte 'narrow-minded/narrow-minded person'; also in other nominal ...
Bruce C. Donaldson, 1993
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Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills
Narrow-Minded,. or. Insensitive. Members. Occasionally, a leader will have to deal with a member with a very narrow or prejudiced view of the world, one who tries to act as a moralist or preacher. This is a difficult situation, because one ...
Ed Jacobs, Robert L. Masson, Riley Harvill, 2008
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The Illinois Teacher
But nowadays the narrow-minded man usually espouses the other side of this debating-society question. He does not believe in dead languages — not he. He seems to actually believe that grammar can die, because the people die who use a ...
‎1870
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The Power Within
left the individual "strait-laced and narrow-minded." Today, there is an open rebellion from that kind of religion. Consider the extent to which the word "broad" has become popular. It is a glittering adjective. To many people, it means freedom ...
Eric Butterworth, 2001
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Tuttle Compact Vietnamese Dictionary
[of a place] deserted. remote hẹp atũ. narrow: chật hẹp narrow; hẹp hòi narrow- minded, Stingy hét v. to shriek, to Scream, to roar, to yell, to shout: hò hét to Shout hẻ n. clown, buñ`oon. jesterz trò hể buffoonery, farce, comedy hễ v. to matter: ...
Phan Van Giuong, 2007
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Life-Study of Philippians: Messages 43-62
They claimed that it is too narrow-minded to preach that Jesus Christ is the unique Savior of mankind. I told them that, concerning Christ, I was not yet narrow -minded enough, that I needed to be narrowed down to nothing other than Christ  ...
Witness Lee, 2000
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Open-Mindedness and Education
(6) A term such as narrow-minded seems to apply mainly to the possession sense, A is narrow-minded if he holds certain views and opinions. Narrow- mindedness applies to one who fails to extend the same judgment 6 CHAPTER 1 .
William Hare, 1993
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Cyprus: A Troubled Island
Like all islanders around the world, the average Turkish Cypriot tends to be self- centered and narrow-minded. He likes to be protected by the army but does not want it to be overly present. Penniless settlers from the mainland have often been  ...
Andrew Borowiec, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NARROW-MINDED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term narrow-minded is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chesterfield BOS takes up bed and breakfast proposal
... criticism leveled by neighbors at Tuesday's Planning Commission — many of which were later repeated Wednesday night — “narrow-minded ... «Richmond.com, Jul 15»
2
Show teachers the money
This is the incredibly dangerous, narrow-minded state this country is unfortunately at now. And these Republicans in Congress also see the ... «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 15»
3
It's my birthday and I'm happy
... deletion so it was deleted by a small group of narrow-minded individuals who concluded that since I never won an election I wasn't “notable. «The Trentonian, Jul 15»
4
Former Miss Vietnam slammed for wearing dress deemed 'too …
... saying,"To take all this outfit's materials and mix them up with tradition is too narrow-minded. The designer has the right to choose whatever ... «Shanghaiist, Jul 15»
5
China and Magna Carta
In contrast, the U.K. consistently had a strong monarch able to balance the nobility, preventing the latter from turning into a narrow-minded ... «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
6
Demystifying identities with her brand of art
Ms. Schrunder says she doesn't want to be narrow-minded. “The culture is totally new to me and the people here are warm-hearted. I will see ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
7
Inverting the Philosopher King Theory
... theory as the country has been having a succession of very voracious, money-hungry and narrow-minded people mostly at the helm of things ... «Sierra Express Media, Jul 15»
8
D'Amato: Canadians abroad should get vote
"This ruling seems like a very narrow-minded and short-sighted way of defining what makes up Canada." He's absolutely right. We wring our ... «Waterloo Record, Jul 15»
9
Opposition voices being silenced at district seminar: Scholarism
The incident shows that the government is narrow-minded and that it doesn't want to give a platform to political opponents or allow rational ... «EJ Insight, Jul 15»
10
Avoid narrow-minded exertion of parking rights
I refer to the letter “SGH car park not patient-friendly” (July 18), about allotments for short-term parking. In most Housing and Development ... «TODAYonline, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Narrow-Minded [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/narrow-minded>. May 2024 ».
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