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insular
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adjective
relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
insular territories
Hawaii's insular culture
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adjective
(= parochial)
narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
little sympathy with parochial mentality
insular attitudes toward foreigners
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adjective
suggestive of the isolated life of an island
an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist
— Leonard Michaels
dwarfism
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noun
a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature