parochial
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8.1
- adjective
- /pəˈroʊkiəl/
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local
- The committee's decisions were often criticized for their parochial focus, ignoring broader community needs.
- parochial interest
- parochial concerns
- parochial tendencies
And you know, in charts like like this, I think it's very parochial.
- And you know, in charts like like this, I think it's very parochial.
- So this does not focus on the parochial side of and the ritualistic and parochial side of Judaism.
- How does that relate to our kind of parochial notion of what it means to protect and serve?
- That was quite a, you know, parochial, suburban, pleasant but homogeneous space.
- So my teenage years I was very drawn to his ideas, his philosophies, which was a very global vision for life, non parochial.
- But it's a group of people who actually understand that we are social and parochial beings with an attachment to community and to country.
- Also, literacy is a technology of cosmopolitanism, of one that lifts people out of their parochial station and exposes them to new people and ideas.
Examples
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Well, uh, Richard, I think that, uh, this is the greatest deliberative body in the world, uh, because it doesn't simply concerns itself with parochial interests.
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How does that relate to our kind of parochial notion of what it means to protect and serve?
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And to take a more parochial example, Mr.
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So it's more parochial than save planet Earth.
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But I'd like to take a much more parochial view of cities, if I may.
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One among millions of species, we have a parochial but legitimate interest in our own survival.
Academic text (1990) -
Above all, the council, unlike more parochial agencies, addressed water issues at a nationwide level.
Academic text (1991) -
Amir, your question, I'm very parochial when it comes to these things.
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A healthy skepticism by laypeople is useful to balance the sometimes parochial views of specialists.
Academic text (1991) -
Nationalist discourse and behavior reveal that most parochial nationalists feel humiliated and angry.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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8.1
Not open to new ideas and people from outside a small community
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6.8
Relating to a very small local area like a neighborhood
Giving more importance to local needs than to national ones
Cares only about the interests of one group, not about society as a whole
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.9
A private primary or secondary school run by a local church that gives religious lessons
A way of thinking that only cares about local matters and ignores wider issues
How Narrow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Parochial comes from the idea of a parish, a local church area. So to call someone's view parochial is to say it is 'local' or 'narrow', as if they only think about matters close to their own parish instead of the wider world.