insular
insular has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.
Definitions
- a.. Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
- a.. Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.
- n.. An islander.
- a.. narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
- a.. 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
- a.. relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"