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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. --Milton. Carlyle. [1913 Webster] 4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] --Quarles. [1913 Webster] 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
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