hidebound
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd/
- Offensive
:
retrógrado
- His hidebound views on education make it difficult for him to accept new teaching methods.
- hidebound bureaucracy
- hidebound traditions
- hidebound conservative
They're selfish, they are hidebound, they are reactionary, they are uneducated, whatever it is.
- They're selfish, they are hidebound, they are reactionary, they are uneducated, whatever it is.
- It's the main bone of contention between the hidebound halls and holds of the the crafts and the holders.
Examples
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Linh's replacement, Premier Do Muoi, is, according to conventional wisdom, a hidebound conservative.
Academic text (1992) -
But as more corporations look for new ideas within their hidebound bureaucracies, we're likely to see continued effusive rhetoric about internal entrepreneurs.
Blog text (10) -
I so admire a man not hidebound by the dictates of fashion.
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Rosin went on, "The old model of command and control, with one leader holding all the decision-making power, is considered hidebound."
Blog text (20) -
We're much too open-minded, secure in each other, and naturally gregarious to be hidebound by the 'facts.'
Blog text (6) -
Clearly, the scientific community, not the GOP, is fraught with dangerous, hidebound ideologues.
Blog text (12) -
He needed to transform the entrenched corporate culture, which had become hidebound and overly bureaucratic.
Blog text (32) -
Apparently, doctrinaire Marxists are just as unimaginative, rigid, and ideologically hidebound as the local Chamber of Commerce; who knew?
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If those men declined to connect informally with women but continued to do so with their male colleagues, we'd have a culturally hidebound system that structurally excludes women.
Blog text (6) -
But despite his successes on services ranging from bus routes to wastewater management to the upkeep of the parks, Goldsmith had scant luck in reforming the hidebound police department and the schools, which are under an independent board of education.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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5.1
Not willing to accept ideas or ways different from their own
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5.2
Not willing to accept new ideas or different opinions
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6.5
Holding strongly to old customs and resisting change
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9.5
Still holding old beliefs and unwilling to change
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9.9
Refusing to change beliefs or show regret, even when wrong
Antonyms
Compounds
How Inflexible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hidebound comes from hide ('skin') and bound ('tied'), as if something is tied so tight by its skin that it cannot bend. So hidebound now describes a person or idea that is too stiff and unwilling to change.