clannish

[ klan-ish ]

Synonyms for clannish

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Antonyms for clannish

adjective. narrow-minded, exclusive

Word Origin & History

"disposed to adhere closely to one another," 1747, from clan + -ish. Related: Clannishly; clannishness.

In the first place this interesting bird is a clannish fellow.

Norfolk men are clannish, and Horbury's evidence carried weight.

"Then the Highlanders are as clannish as ever," cried the General.

But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother.

They are national in form and colour, but clannish in opinion.

The contracting of a marriage is not so much an individual as it is a clannish affair.

The burying-places in the East are clannish or church possessions.

You haven't been up to your usual form of futile and clannish conversation.

The one were as turbulent, clannish, fierce, and barbarous as the other.

The higher type of man is firm but not quarrelsome; sociable, but not clannish.