| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_not-willing-to-consider-new-or-different-ideas |
| 释义 | not willing to consider new or different ideasThese words all describe people or groups who are not willing to consider or accept new or different ideas or behaviours that are different from their own. Most of these words are disapproving. One of the words for this with the broadest meaning is narrow-minded. Narrow-minded can be used of people or their opinions. She's a mean, narrow-minded person. That's quite a narrow-minded view of women and their roles in society. The opposite of narrow-minded is open-minded. I was surprised at how open-minded she is. For more opposites of narrow-minded, see the article at open-minded. Intolerant is used when a person will not accept or approve of behaviours or ideas that are not their own. Intolerant is stronger than narrow-minded, but both words are disapproving. How can I get him to stop being so intolerant of other people? Such intolerant views about other religions can lead to violence. The adjective bigoted is disapproving and is much stronger that intolerant and narrow-minded. A bigoted person has very strong and usually unreasonable beliefs and dislikes anyone who has different beliefs from them. She was criticized as bigoted for her controversial views. His bigoted and racist comments got him sacked. The opposite of intolerant is tolerant. In a tolerant society, many different types of people can live together in peace. Someone who is small-minded has very strong opinions or firmly fixed ideas and is not willing to consider new ones. Small-minded is not as common as narrow-minded. It is a disapproving word. We are not the small-minded bigots that the opposition makes us out to be. A person or group that is hidebound has very fixed ideas about things and is not willing to be influenced by newer and especially modern ideas. Hidebound is a disapproving word and is used more often in formal writing. The institution has hidebound ideas about whether women can be adequate scholars. If someone is described as provincial, they have opinions or ideas that are old-fashioned or simple, and they will not change them to be more modern. Provincial is a disapproving word. He can be very provincial when it comes to women in the workplace. People who are insular or parochial are not interested in ideas that are different from those that are in their own group or only affect their own group. Both words are used more in writing than in speech, and both words are disapproving. He grew up in an insular and isolated family. You'd think someone as well-travelled as she is would be less parochial in her views. The word blinkered can be used of a person who is unable or unwilling to understand other people's beliefs or new beliefs. Blinkered is not a disapproving word, but it is more common in UK English than in US English. He has a rather blinkered view of just how pervasive technology is in our modern world. |
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