[
US
/ˈɪnsəɫɝ/
]
[ UK /ˈɪnsjʊlɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɪnsjʊlɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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suggestive of the isolated life of an island
an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist -
relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
insular territories
Hawaii's insular culture -
narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
insular attitudes toward foreigners
little sympathy with parochial mentality
How To Use insular In A Sentence
- In his novel, he separated the peninsula from the continent, thus permitting the cultural meeting of the peninsular peoples with those from the other side of the Atlantic.
- But the party hopes that the formation of the new National Integration Council with senior leaders from the state and also from the peninsular will be a more permanent solution to help improve ties with the two East Malaysian states. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
- Highland slopes were characterized by an association of clubmoss (Lycopodium trichiatum), a fern (Gleichemia polypodioides), and flowering plants (Poa fuegiana, Acaena seurguisarbae, Scirpus aucklandicus, Uncinia brevicaulis, and Trisetum insulare). Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands
- Marine habitats throughout the insular Pacific are increasingly threatened by human activity.
- There is another way to weigh this trend, however: maybe readers and viewers are not so much growing insular as searching for meaning in a vast universe of fact and factoid, and embracing a political bent is one way of organizing it.
- You become insular and protective of your own players in your team. Times, Sunday Times
- It happened in this southern state of Johore, Peninsular Malaysia. Security Guarad Absconded With RM320,000.
- When I ask him about his own character, he uses the words insular, shy, reserved and private.
- Sandwiched between the Adriatic and Black Seas, the peninsular is a hodgepodge mix of religions, peoples and cultures. TheTrumpet.com: Front Page
- He described it in the 1930s as the richest bird habitat in peninsular India, comparable only with the Eastern Himalayas.