- close-minded
-
unreceptive to new ideas or information.
Wikipedia foundation.
close-minded
Look at other dictionaries:
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 — close mind|ed [ ,klous maındəd ] adjective not willing to try new things or consider other opinions … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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 — 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
