Origin: Latin
suffix -ular
Insular has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Noun
Adjective
1
relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
"insular territories"
"Hawaii's insular culture"
2
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"
3
narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
"little sympathy with parochial mentality"
"insular attitudes toward foreigners"
4
Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
Example Sentences
"insular territories"
adjective
"Hawaii's insular culture"
adjective
"an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"
adjective
"little sympathy with parochial mentality"
adjective
"insular attitudes toward foreigners"
adjective
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