Parochial

3 definitions found

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

  Parochial \Pa*ro"chi*al\, a. [LL. parochialis, from L. parochia.
     See {Parish}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as,
        parochial duties; parochial schools. "Parochial pastors."
        --Bp. Atterbury.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Hence: Limited; narrow; having or characterized by narrow
        interests centered on oneself or one's local community;
        narrow-minded; provincial; as, parochial views. "The
        parochial mind." --W. Black.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parochial
       adj 1: relating to or supported by or located in a parish;
              "parochial schools"
       2: narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy
          with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward
          foreigners" [syn: {insular}]

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

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "parochial":
     authoritarian, biased, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, confined,
     conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
     deaf to reason, dogmatic, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding,
     exclusive, exclusory, fanatical, geographically limited, hidebound,
     illiberal, immovable, inadmissible, insular, intolerant,
     intractable, isolated, limited, little, little-minded, local,
     localized, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow,
     narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited,
     nearsighted, of a place, one-sided, opinionated, partial, petty,
     preclusive, prejudiced, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive,
     provincial, purblind, regional, restricted, restrictive, rigid,
     seclusive, sectarian, segregative, select, selective, separative,
     short-sighted, shortsighted, small, small-minded, small-town,
     snobbish, stiff, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy,
     topical, uncatholic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncharitable,
     uncultivated, uncultured, ungenerous, unliberal, unsophisticated,
     unworldly, vernacular, xenophobic