narrow-minded

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I can't believe the narrow-minded approach a lot of comments here suggest.

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capable of being shocked

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of narrow-minded gathered in one view.

adjective

capable of being shocked

adjective

lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"

adjective

rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for narrow-minded.

adjective

capable of being shocked

adjective

lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"

adjective

rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines

Example sentences

I can't believe the narrow-minded approach a lot of comments here suggest.

"It seems people are quick to point out that Manning broke some rules, but are too narrow-minded to look up and see the big picture.

Stopping at the syntax when talking about Lisp is pretty narrow-minded and completely misses what makes Lisp so great.

His freedom is a narrow-minded ideology, abstracted from what freedom means in the real world.

But to to the narrow-minded, let me put it another way: We have contraceptives, we can have sex whenever we damn choose to, with whoever we fancy.

Am I missing something, or is this a colossally irresponsible and narrow-minded way to approach software development?

"Obviously I have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to mechanical security, but I am confident saying that any call for the blanket abolition of mechanical locks is short-sighted and narrow-minded.

That Reddit adequately demonstrates that readers are impulsive, poorly informed, narrow-minded, and easily manipulated.

But to others, artistic quality is a more useful way to describe things - and it can cheerfully describe all types of optics in that useful way, a way that doesn't need to stick things on a scale of good to bad. Marco appears to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and caught me on full-flame-on mode - but he's also being narrow-minded and only looking to one context, which doesn't help anybody make better pictures, it just helps them make sharper and bigger pictures.