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Definition of Closed-minded
1. Adjective. Not ready to receive to new ideas.
Definition of Closed-minded
1. Adjective. (alternative form of close-minded) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closed-minded
Literary usage of Closed-minded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"... listening to others and being closed-minded D Thinking "I'm unique" D Maintaining
an "image" D Being ingratiating (kissing up) D Being grandiose n ..."
2. Prophets and Profits: Managerialism and the Restructuring of Jewish Schools by Chaya Herman (2006)
"This could jeopardise the sustainability of the community, and often results in
it becoming more authoritative and closed-minded. ..."
3. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"But these days people are not so closed- minded. Indeed, the search for new tastes
and new culinary sensations is becoming a force that is opening up the ..."
4. End The Biggest Educational And Intellectual Blunder In History: A $100,000 by Norman W. Edmund (2005)
"Was it closed-minded traditionalism? Was it arrogance? After 1947, was it also
an attempt to help perpetuate Conant's false claims? ..."
5. Federal Prison Industries, Inc: Congressional Hearings edited by Bill McCollum, William McCollum (2000)
"I am not closed-minded about it, but I am very subjective because I represent
the furniture capital of the world, Lexington, High Point. ..."
6. Hackoff.com: An Historic Murder Mystery Set in the Internet Bubble and Rubble by Tom Evslin (2006)
""I think management is being very closed-minded. That often happens when—" "Joanne,"
interrupts Franklin, "are you under a lot of pressure at Big Router to ..."
7. Mystery of Tammuz 17 by Herbert R. Stollorz (2005)
"closed-minded arrogance has been a primary cause for many of these horrible
atrocities. Self-centered greed and/or the desire to exercise social or ..."
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