Parochial

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to a parish.
 * 2) Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
 * The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel
 * The United States has been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From parochial: and its source  parochialis:, an alteration of paroecialis:, from paroecia:, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία:, later “community, diocese”, from  πάροικος:, from παρα-: + οἶκος:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 教區, 教区
 * Croatian: parohijalan
 * Czech: farní
 * Finnish:


 * French: paroissial, paroissiale
 * German: Gemeinde-, Pfarr-
 * Macedonian: епархиски, парохиски
 * Russian: приходской


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 狹隘, 狭隘
 * Croatian: parohijalan
 * Czech: provinční, omezený, lokální
 * Finnish:


 * German:, , provinziell
 * Macedonian: парохијален, малограѓански
 * Russian: узкий, ограниченный, местнический

Related terms

 * parochial school
 * parochial vicar
 * parochialism