Thesaurus / hidebound
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Is it not possible that you are not yet awake, or, God pity you, that you are hidebound in the dogmatism of your bit of thinking.
THE KEMPTON-WACE LETTERSJACK LONDONWe are very hidebound in these conventions, we Moors; no other ways command honor.
THE WOLF CUBPATRICK CASEY"But you mustn't think I'm absolutely hidebound," she went on.
MRS. MAXON PROTESTSANTHONY HOPENow this young zealot was a man of imagination, hidebound only in his traditions.
THE QUICKENINGFRANCIS LYNDEI have never cared much about the world's opinion, even in the days when I was most hidebound in prejudice.
THREE COMEDIESBJRNSTJERNE M. BJRNSONJudicially, we men of science are all hidebound and look upon every innovation as erroneous until proved otherwise.
THE SPELLWILLIAM DANA ORCUTTHow in thunder can I get those narrow-gauge, hidebound Easterners to launch out into business in this country?
THE MAN FROM GLENGARRYRALPH CONNORHe was not merely a hidebound aristocrat, but a pessimist who was trying to kill all hope of human progress.
THE PIVOT OF CIVILIZATIONMARGARET SANGERHe is altogether without responsibility, and without initiative and, by the time he becomes a field officer, he is hidebound.
WITH KITCHENER IN THE SOUDANG. A. HENTYThis is in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, in the despised and hidebound Middle Ages.
MEDIEVAL PEOPLEEILEEN EDNA POWERWORDS RELATED TO HIDEBOUND
- bound
- clasped
- close-fitting
- compact
- constricted
- contracted
- cramped
- crowded
- dense
- drawn
- enduring
- established
- fast
- firm
- fixed
- hidebound
- inflexible
- invulnerable
- narrow
- quick
- rigid
- secure
- set
- skintight
- solid
- stable
- steady
- stiff
- strained
- stretched
- strong
- sturdy
- taut
- tenacious
- tense
- thick
- tightened
- unbending
- unyielding
- Tory
- bourgeois
- constant
- controlled
- conventional
- die-hard
- fearful
- firm
- fogyish
- fuddy-duddy
- guarded
- hard hat
- hidebound
- holding to
- illiberal
- in a rut
- inflexible
- middle-of-the-road
- obstinate
- old guard
- old-line
- orthodox
- quiet
- reactionary
- right
- right of center
- right-wing
- rightist
- sober
- stable
- steady
- timid
- traditional
- traditionalistic
- unchangeable
- unchanging
- uncreative
- undaring
- unimaginative
- unprogressive
- bourgeois
- constant
- controlled
- conventional
- die-hard
- fearful
- firm
- fogyish
- fuddy-duddy
- guarded
- hard hat
- hidebound
- holding to
- illiberal
- in a rut
- inflexible
- middle-of-the-road
- obstinate
- old guard
- old-line
- orthodox
- quiet
- reactionary
- right of center
- right-wing
- rightist
- sober
- stable
- steady
- traditional
- traditionalist
- unchangeable
- unchanging
- uncreative
- undaring
- unimaginative
- unprogressive
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