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Word | Narrow-minded |
Afrikaans Meaning | eng |
capable of being shocked / not willing to accept the ideas of others (the opposite of, narrow minded is broad-minded) / Of narrow mental scope / not willing to listen to or tolerate other people's views; prejudiced., | |
Usage | ⇒ Narrow-minded people tend to discriminate against groups of people with which they have nothing in common. ⇒ Ted is so broad-minded that he has almost no standards by which he judges others. ⇒ Discrimination on the basis of caste etc is a narrow minded attitude ⇒ The professor also slammed the government's research funding agencies for narrow-minded views on how to train researchers. |
Synonyms | bigoted, intolerant, prejudiced, parochial, opinionated, narrow, conservative, provincial, close-minded, hidebound, petty, conventional, illiberal, one-sided, stuffy, biased, insular, limited, rigid, small-minded, |
Antonyms | broad-minded, tolerant, liberal, broad, catholic, nonsectarian, unbiased, unshockable, cosmopolitan, expansive, free-thinking, freethinking, large-minded, latitudinarian, open, open-minded, progressive, radical, receptive, undogmatic, |
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