English-Thai Dictionary

hidebound

ADJ ใจแคบ  หัวโบรา ณ  narrow-minded jai-kab

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HIDEBOUND

a.A horse is hidebound, when his skin sticks so closely to his ribs and back, as not to be easily loosened or raised. Trees are said to be hidebound, when the bark is so close or firm that it impedes the growth.
1. Harsh; untractable. [Not used. ]
2. Niggardly; penurious. [Not used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HIDEBOUND

HIDEBOUND Hide "bound `, a.

 

1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.

 

2. (Hort. )

 

Defn: Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon.

 

3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle.

 

4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs. ] Quarles.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hidebound

hide bound |ˈhīdˌbound ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd | ▶adjective unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention: you are hidebound by your petty laws. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a condition of cattle ): from hide 2 + bound 4. The earliest sense of the adjective (of cattle ) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense ‘narrow, cramped, or bigoted in outlook. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

hidebound

hide |bound |ˈhʌɪdbaʊnd | ▶adjective unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention: they are working to change hidebound corporate cultures. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle ): from hide 2 + bound 4. The earliest sense of the adjective (referring to cattle ) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense ‘narrow in outlook ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hidebound

hidebound adjective hidebound traditionalists: conservative, reactionary, conventional, orthodox; fundamentalist, diehard, hardline, dyed-in-the-wool, set in one's ways, unyielding, inflexible; narrow-minded, small-minded, intolerant, uncompromising, rigid; prejudiced, bigoted. ANTONYMS liberal.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hidebound

hidebound adjective the hidebound traditionalists refused to accept the changes: conservative, reactionary, conventional, orthodox, fundamentalist, diehard, hard-line, dyed-in-the-wool, ultra-conservative, fixed in one's views, set in one's opinions, set in one's ways; narrow-minded, narrow, petty-minded, small-minded, intolerant, intractable, uncompromising, rigid, prejudiced, bigoted, strait-laced; Brit. blimpish. ANTONYMS liberal, broad-minded.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hidebound

h í de b ò und 形容詞 ｟けなして ｠〈人 態度が 〉融通のきかない, 頑固な, 偏狭な, 保守的な .