close-minded
1close-minded — adj. not ready to receive new ideas. Syn: closed minded. [WordNet 1.5] …
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3close-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 …
4close-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. * * * …
5close-minded — close mind|ed [ ,klous maındəd ] adjective not willing to try new things or consider other opinions …
6close-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,… …
7close-minded — adjective unreceptive to new ideas or information. Syn: doctrinaire, dogmatic, hidebound, illiberal, inflexible, intolerant, narrow minded, partisan …
8close-minded — UK [ˌkləʊs ˈmaɪndɪd] / US [ˌkloʊs ˈmaɪndəd] adjective not willing to try new things or consider other opinions …
9close 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… …
10close — {{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 …
