narrow minded
Closed to alternatives
Narrow-minded describes someone unwilling to consider ideas, opinions, or perspectives different from their own.
The term suggests mental rigidity—a closed-off quality that prevents openness to new experiences or viewpoints: Don't be so narrow-minded about trying new foods.
Often hyphenated as narrow-minded when used before a noun: a narrow-minded approach to education.
- closed offBarred from access
- pettyOf little importance
- intolerantRejecting differing beliefs
- insularNarrow in outlook
- opinionatedFirmly attached to beliefs
set in ways · provincial · bigoted · tunnel vision · parochial · ethnocentrism · hidebound · dogmatism · blinkered · xenophobic · self-opinionated · prejudice · stereotyping · echo chamber · inflexibility · rigidity · judgmentalism · pedantic
- body idiomsheart of gold, heart of stone, cold heart, warm heart, soft heart
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Receptive to different ideas
broad-minded · receptive · open · flexible · free-thinking
narrow mindedtolerant
Accepting of differences
accepting · inclusive · cosmopolitan · egalitarian · ecumenical
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Receptive to differing views
expansive · worldly · wide-ranging · far-sighted · sophisticated
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