Vocabulary
Parochial
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having a limited or narrow outlook or scope.
Urdu meaning
مقامی، کسی محدود حلقہ کا،علاقائی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Hindutva and its leaders are all about a parochial and violent quest at home they want to fulfil by tearing up a centuries-old social fabric, a challenge in which they will likely never succeed.
- If democracy is to take root at the most basic level, political parties must change their parochial concerns of losing power and influence and help facilitate the functioning of regular elected local bodies.
- Sloth, inertia and catering to the parochial interests of the ruling parties rather than serving the populace have made the civil services quite unresponsive and inefficient.
- not to allow personal considerations, parochial sentiments and individual likes and dislikes.
- He worked on the latter`s agenda to block Benazir Bhutto`s path to power including deploying a vile misogynistic and parochial campaign ahead of the 1988 elections and partially succeeded.
Synonyms
narrow-minded, small-minded, provincial, insular, narrow, small-town, inward-looking
Antonyms
cosmopolitan, broad-minded, liberal
Curator example
“parochial attitudes”
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