small-minded
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˈsmɔlˌmaɪndɪd/
- Offensive
:
de mente cerrada
- It's frustrating to deal with small-minded individuals who refuse to consider other perspectives.
- small-minded people
- small-minded bureaucrats
- small-minded jerks
You are a racially charged, small minded, bigoted person.
- You are a racially charged, small minded, bigoted person.
- And if our uncreated conscience is created in a small minded, punitive way, it's going to be a small minded punitive country.
- So the irony is, is that there's plenty of small time, small minded Christian people that have done a critique of Dave Ramsey trashing me.
- It's petty, it's small minded, it's uncomfortable, and it is not done out of necessity but out of a real mean spiritedness.
- Doesn't even describe how small minded that is.
Examples
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Small minds breed small-minded superstitions.
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Small-minded people myopically focus on small-minded issues, mostly issues that impact themselves.
Blog text (13) -
Never get on the bad side of small-minded people who have a little authority.
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You are a small-minded man, Jeff.
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Obviously, some people will always be small-minded, and this movie is but a sample of reality.
Blog text (15) -
It's not about who's right or wrong; it would be incredibly small-minded to put an individual down.
Blog text (4) -
I'm sorry you've had to deal with so many small-minded people being rude to you.
Blog text (2) -
"Throughout history," he said, "ignorant people, small-minded people, have objected to scientific investigation, calling every experiment tampering with nature."
Fiction book (2001) -
Mexican politics has been notably sterile and unimaginative in recent years, marked by small-minded games of intrigue and daily point-scoring over opponents.
Academic text (2006) -
I think at worst it’s a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house... and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition... - and conservative religious nonsense.
Synonyms
97
3.9
Being mean about small, unimportant things
25
5.1
Not willing to accept ideas or ways different from their own
11
5.5
Not willing to think about new ideas or other people's views
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5.2
Not willing to accept new ideas or different opinions
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8.0
Not willing to accept different ideas or change
Antonyms
How Small-Minded
- Offensive
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7.8
64
4.6
25
5.1
- Offensive
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6.5
97
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word small-minded comes from the parts small and mind, so imagine a 'small' 'mind' that can't accept big ideas, just like the opposite word open-minded. That's why small-minded describes someone narrow, mean, or not open to new ideas.