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insular   (TTS Sound)

The adj insular has 3 senses

• insular -- (relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture")


• insular -- (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)


• insular, parochial -- (narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners")