insular
in·su·lar
adjective
1.
2.
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
3.
narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
- “little sympathy with parochial mentality”
- “insular attitudes toward foreigners”
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin īnsulāris (“of or belonging to an island”), from īnsula (“an island”), of uncertain origin.
Phrases
- insular cortex
- insular dwarfism
- insular gigantism
- insular gray fox
- insular s
- insular script
- insular Spaniard
- insular tameness
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