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narrow-minded

UK/ˈnæ.ɹəʊˌmaɪn.dɪd/US/ˈnæ.ɹəʊˌmaɪn.dɪd/
adjectiveB2leans spoken

Narrow-minded means unwilling to consider views unlike your own. A narrow-minded attitude.

It is an accusation about the width of somebody's thinking rather than its content. Nobody has ever called themselves narrow-minded, which is part of the difficulty.

Definitions of narrow-minded

  1. 1adjectivenarrow-mindedUnwilling to consider views unlike your own.B2

    “The narrow-minded objection was made twice and then dropped.”

narrow-minded is a quality.

Where it comes from

Narrow plus minded; the compound is recorded from the seventeenth century.

From narrow + minded.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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