Parochial

adjective

/pəˈɹəʊkɪəl/

Word Frequency: 2.0

Definitions

1.adjectivePertaining to a parish.

2.adjectiveCharacterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

"Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters."

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