Insular

Adjective

 * Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
 * 1) * 1836, Washington Irving, Astoria, ch. 6:
 * With these he held undisputed sway over his insular domains, and carried on intercourse with the chiefs or governors whom he had placed in command of the several islands.
 * 1) Situated on an island.
 * 2) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 1:
 * There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs.
 * 1) Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little interaction with external parties; provincial.
 * 2) * 1903, Jack London, Call of the Wild, ch. 1:
 * [H]e had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
 * 1) Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
 * 2) * 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, ch. 6:
 * Harriet was fretful and insular. Miss Abbott was pleasant, and insisted on praising everything.

Related terms

 * insulate
 * insulator
 * insulation


 * isolate
 * isolation
 * isolator


 * peninsula

Adverb for Insular
incredibly; happily; safely; securely; narrowly; narrow-mindedly; bigotedly; fanatically; contentedly; smugly; dogmatically; stupidly; surprisingly; naturally; peacefully; complacently; inordinately; rustically; provincially.

Thesaurus
alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, asunder, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, bipartite, borne, circumscribed, closed, companionless, confined, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, detached, dichotomous, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distinct, divergent, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exotic, extraneous, fanatical, foreign, friendless, geographically limited, hidebound, homeless, illiberal, in a backwater, in two, inadmissible, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, insulated, irrelative, island, island-dotted, island-dweller, islanded, islander, islandish, islandlike, islandman, islandologist, islandy, islesman, isleted, isolated, kithless, limited, little, little-minded, local, localized, lone, lonely, lonesome, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, noncohesive, of a place, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, parochial, partitioned, petty, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, provincial, purblind, quarantined, regional, remote, removed, restricted, restrictive, retired, rootless, seagirt, secluded, seclusive, sectarian, sectional, segregate, segregated, segregative, select, selective, separate, separated, separative, shortsighted, shut off, single-handed, small, small-minded, small-town, snobbish, solitary, solo, straitlaced, strange, stuffy, topical, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattached, unattended, uncatholic, uncharitable, unconnected, unescorted, unfrequented, ungenerous, unjoined, unliberal, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited, vernacular, withdrawn, xenophobic

Etymology
< insularis: < insula:, perhaps < in: + salum:.

Translations

 * Catalan: insular
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: saari-, saaristo-


 * Macedonian: островски
 * Russian:
 * Volapük: nisulik


 * Catalan: aïllat, isolat
 * Finnish:


 * Macedonian: ограден
 * Swedish: avskild


 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian: тесноград


 * Swedish: tillbakadragen

Anagrams

 * urinals

Adjective

 * 1) insular

Noun

 * 1) islander

Related terms

 * ínsula
 * isla