hidebound

hidebound
    adj 1: stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded [syn:
           {hidebound}, {traditionalist}]
    

Hidebound \Hide"bound`\, a.
   1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back
      as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an
      animal.
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   2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it
      impedes the growth; -- said of trees. --Bacon.
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   3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly
      conservative. --Milton. Carlyle.
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   4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] --Quarles.
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "hidebound":
      Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted,
      borne, censorious, closed, conservative, constricted, conventional,
      cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour,
      evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hyperorthodox,
      illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, intolerant,
      intractable, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, literalist,
      literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
      mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted,
      narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
      obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial,
      petty, precisianist, precisianistic, priggish, prim, procrustean,
      provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan,
      puritanic, puritanical, reactionary, relentless, restricted, rigid,
      rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious,
      shortsighted, small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff,
      stiff-necked, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict,
      stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable,
      uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding