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medeainside
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HELP!!
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Hello everyone!!
Could anybody tell me if I can use the adjective short-minded as a synonym for narrow-minded? Or I�ll put it in another way? Does the word short-minded exist?
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7 Sep 2010
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lolelozano
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a syn. of broad minded (narrow-minded) ---> unprincipled,permissive -
the word in the right means roughly the same as the word in the left-hand except that they have negative rather than positive connotations
I hope it helps.
regards
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7 Sep 2010
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ballycastle1
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Hi, I �ve never heard of short-minded. Short-sighted, yes, but short-minded, no.
Common synonyms for narrow-minded are bigoted, opinionated, parochial, insular, conventional, conservative. It really depends on the context. Hope this helps. |
7 Sep 2010
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claudiafer
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I need some help too! Can anyone tell me the meaning of the following idiom: "Head your hometown" |
8 Sep 2010
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SueThom
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Like ballycastle1, I �ve never heard of short-minded, but have heard of short-sighted. However, I �m also aware of the word small-minded. Could that, perhaps, be the word you meant?
Small-minded is sometimes used as a synonym for narrow-minded, but really has more to do with being petty, nitpicky--obsessed with inconsequential details....mmm, sort of. Not compulsive-obsessive, but--well, I digress (again).
And, no, I �ve never heard "head your hometown". Couldn �t find it in a corpus or on a search engine, either.
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8 Sep 2010
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douglas
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I �ve never heard of "short-minded" nor "head your hometown". |
8 Sep 2010
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yanogator
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Could it be "head back to your hometown"?
Bruce |
8 Sep 2010
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