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Adjective: insular  in-s(y)u-lu(r)
  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
    "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
    - parochial

See also: insularity, island, private, provincial

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