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Definition

interested only in the ideas and viewpoints of your culture or small group

Much more rarely, insular references something as related to an island.

The committee is isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless.

All she has learned has come from the insular world of the North Korean educational system.
de Tapeworm continues his system of stupid insular arrogance and vulgar falsehood against the greatest nation in the world.
Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
This view would remove many difficulties, but it would not, I think, explain all the facts in regard to insular productions.
Darwin, Charles -- The Origin of Species
One value even of the smallest well is, that when you look into it you see that earth is not continent but insular.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
The soil is varied and productive; and its almost insular form gives it two grand lines of communication by the rivers Parana and Uruguay.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
The insular nature of Great Britain obtruded itself upon his notice in an odious form.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Secret Agent
English insular narrowness certainly never had franker expression than in his exclamation: 'For anything I can see, all foreigners are fools.
Fletcher, Robert Huntington -- A History of English Literature
As to Mills, he was perfectly insular.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Arrow of Gold
an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist
Hawaii's insular culture
insular attitudes toward foreigners
To the insular cynic and the insular moralist they offer an equal opportunity.
Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
The persecuted young woman had but to beckon a finger and Soapy would be practically en route for his insular haven.
Henry, O. -- The Four Million
insular territories
He'd hated it: Ojai was too small, too insular and, in the summer months, simply too hot for him.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
He knows that that sort of insular passion can't be sustained.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
His world is insular, Lieutenant, comprised for the most part of himself alone.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
"... the Insular Cases of nineteen aught one," Mr. Doans was saying.
Ouida Sebestyen -- Words by Heart
Max's life at the farm was relatively quiet and insular.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

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