hidebound

adjective

/ˈhaɪdbaʊnd/

(disapproving)

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having old-fashioned ideas, rather than accepting new ways of thinking synonym narrow-minded
- She wanted a life that was less hidebound by rules and conventions.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle): from hide ‘animal skin’ + bound ‘restrained’. The earliest sense of the adjective (referring to cattle) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense ‘narrow in outlook’.

单词	hidebound
释义	hidebound adjective /ˈhaɪdbaʊnd/ /ˈhaɪdbaʊnd/ (disapproving) jump to other results having old-fashioned ideas, rather than accepting new ways of thinking synonym narrow-minded She wanted a life that was less hidebound by rules and conventions. Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle): from hide ‘animal skin’ + bound ‘restrained’. The earliest sense of the adjective (referring to cattle) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense ‘narrow in outlook’.
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