insular

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not interested in new ideas or in people outside your own group; narrow-minded.

   Living in such a remote village made the community rather insular.

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to or living on an island.

   The country governs several small insular territories in the Pacific.

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsulāris (“of or belonging to an island”), from īnsula (“an island”), of uncertain origin.

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