Parochial

parochial
    adj 1: relating to or supported by or located in a parish;
           "parochial schools"
    2: narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy
       with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward
       foreigners" [syn: {insular}, {parochial}]
    

Parochial \Pa*ro"chi*al\, a. [LL. parochialis, from L. parochia.
   See {Parish}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as,
      parochial duties; parochial schools. "Parochial pastors."
      --Bp. Atterbury.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Hence: Limited; narrow; having or characterized by narrow
      interests centered on oneself or one's local community;
      narrow-minded; provincial; as, parochial views. "The
      parochial mind." --W. Black.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]
    

90 Moby Thesaurus words for "parochial":
      authoritarian, biased, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, confined,
      conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
      deaf to reason, dogmatic, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding,
      exclusive, exclusory, fanatical, geographically limited, hidebound,
      illiberal, immovable, inadmissible, insular, intolerant,
      intractable, isolated, limited, little, little-minded, local,
      localized, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow,
      narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited,
      nearsighted, of a place, one-sided, opinionated, partial, petty,
      preclusive, prejudiced, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive,
      provincial, purblind, regional, restricted, restrictive, rigid,
      seclusive, sectarian, segregative, select, selective, separative,
      short-sighted, shortsighted, small, small-minded, small-town,
      snobbish, stiff, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy,
      topical, uncatholic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncharitable,
      uncultivated, uncultured, ungenerous, unliberal, unsophisticated,
      unworldly, vernacular, xenophobic