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insular

English

  1. 🔊 narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
    “little sympathy with parochial mentality”
  2. 🔊 suggestive of the isolated life of an island
    “an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist”
  3. 🔊 relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
    “insular territories”

Similar words

parochial alien alienated alone aloof apart archipelagian archipelagic asunder authoritarian bigot bigoted bipartite borne circumscribed closed companionless confined constricted cramped creedbound deaf deaf to reason detached