Hidebound

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hidebound \Hide"bound`\, a.
     1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back
        as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an
        animal.
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     2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it
        impedes the growth; -- said of trees. --Bacon.
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     3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly
        conservative. --Milton. Carlyle.
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     4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] --Quarles.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hidebound
       adj : stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded [syn: {traditionalist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "hidebound":
     Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted,
     borne, censorious, closed, conservative, constricted, conventional,
     cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour,
     evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hyperorthodox,
     illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, intolerant,
     intractable, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, literalist,
     literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
     mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted,
     narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
     obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial,
     petty, precisianist, precisianistic, priggish, prim, procrustean,
     provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan,
     puritanic, puritanical, reactionary, relentless, restricted, rigid,
     rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious,
     shortsighted, small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff,
     stiff-necked, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict,
     stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable,
     uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding