close-minded

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close-minded

adjective more close-minded · most close-minded · closed-minded

Unreceptive to new ideas or information; stubbornly set in one's ways.
Similar: doctrinaire, dogmatic, hidebound, illiberal, inflexible, intolerant, narrow-minded, partisan, pigheaded, rigid, stubborn, unpersuadable

Opposite: open-minded

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@misc{close_minded_2026,
  title = {close-minded},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/close-minded},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}