blinkered
/ˈblɪŋkəd
/adjective
1(Of a horse) wearing blinkers: Aboyeur’s blinkered head showed in front soon after the start...
- The stable-bound horse, ribs protruding, eyes blinkered, stamped its hooves on the wooden floor.
- Had a blinkered horse ever won the Derby?
- A tonga resembles a huge wooden box, balanced on two sturdy wheels, drawn by a single blinkered horse.
1.1Having or showing a narrow or limited outlook: a blinkered attitude...
- Companies suffer from a provincial and culturally blinkered approach to the repertoire and with dire performance results.
- Such narrow-minded blinkered parochialism can only leave these campaigners looking even more desperate.
- He really will get a shock if he keeps thinking in such a blinkered, narrow way.
Synonyms
narrow-minded, limited, restricted, inward-looking, conventional, parochial, provincial, insular, small-town, localist, small-minded, petty-minded, petty, close-minded, short-sighted, myopic, hidebound, dyed-in-the-wool, diehard, set, set in one's ways, inflexible, dogmatic, rigid, entrenched, prejudiced, bigoted, biased, partisan, sectarian, discriminatory;
British parish-pump, blimpish;
French borné
North American informal jerkwater
rare claustral
- grandeeship
- grande horizontale
- grandelle
- grande monde
- grande passion
- grande sonnerie
- grande tenue
- grandeur
- grandeval
- grandevity
- grandezza
- grande école
- grande épreuve
- grandfather
- grandfather chair
- grandfather clause
- grandfather clock
- grandfatherhood
- grandfather-in-law
- grandfatherland
- grandfatherless
- grandfatherly
- grandfather paradox
- grandfather rights
- grandfather's beard