insular

insular is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
2. adjective. Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.
3. noun. An islander.
4. adjective. narrowly restricted in outlook or scope

   "little sympathy with parochial mentality"

   "insular attitudes toward foreigners"

   Synonyms: parochial

5. adjective. suggestive of the isolated life of an island- Leonard Michaels

   "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"

6. adjective. relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island

   "insular territories"

   "Hawaii's insular culture"

Synonyms

parochial

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in insular:

urinals

Common word forms

insulars, insularly, insularity, insularize

Words from these letters

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