- close-minded
- close-mind|ed [ ,klous `maındəd ] adjectivenot willing to try new things or consider other opinions
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
close-minded — adj. not ready to receive new ideas. Syn: closed minded. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Close-minded — Wikipedia does not have an encyclopedia article for Close minded (search results). You may want to read Wiktionary s entry on close minded instead.wiktionary:Special:Search/close minded … Wikipedia
close-minded — adjective not ready to receive to new ideas • Syn: ↑closed minded • Similar to: ↑narrow minded, ↑narrow * * * close minded UK [ˌkləʊs ˈmaɪndɪd] US [ˌkloʊs ˈmaɪndəd] adjective not willing to try new things or consider other opinions … Useful english dictionary
close-minded — close mind·ed (klōsʹmīnʹdĭd, klōzʹ ) or closed mind·ed (klōzdʹ ) adj. Intolerant of the beliefs and opinions of others; stubbornly unreceptive to new ideas. closeʹ mindʹed·ness n. * * * … Universalium
close-minded — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. narrow minded, intolerant, blind, unreceptive. ANT.: broad minded II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Not tolerant of the beliefs or opinions of others, for example: bigoted, hidebound, illiberal, intolerant,… … English dictionary for students
close-minded — adjective unreceptive to new ideas or information. Syn: doctrinaire, dogmatic, hidebound, illiberal, inflexible, intolerant, narrow minded, partisan … Wiktionary
close-minded — UK [ˌkləʊs ˈmaɪndɪd] / US [ˌkloʊs ˈmaɪndəd] adjective not willing to try new things or consider other opinions … English dictionary
close quarters — 1753, originally nautical, and reflecting the confusion of CLOSE (Cf. close) (v.) and CLOSE (Cf. close) (adj.); now understood of proximity, but orig. closed space on ship board where last stand could be made against boarders [Weekley]. Cf. also… … Etymology dictionary
close — {{11}}close (adj.) late 14c., strictly confined, also secret, from O.Fr. clos confined; concealed, secret; taciturn (12c.), from L. clausus, pp. of claudere stop up, fasten, shut (see CLOSE (Cf. close) (v.)); main sense shifting to near (late 15c … Etymology dictionary
close-mindedness — See close minded. * * * … Universalium