Usually means: Unwilling to consider new ideas.
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  1. close-minded: Merriam-Webster
  2. close-minded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. close-minded: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. close-minded: Vocabulary.com
  5. close-minded: Wordnik
  6. close-minded: Wiktionary
  7. close-minded: Dictionary.com
  8. close-minded: Rhymezone
  9. close-minded: FreeDictionary.org
  10. close-minded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. close-minded: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. close-minded: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Unreceptive to new ideas or information; stubbornly set in one's ways.

Similar:
closed-minded, narrow-minded, narrow, closedminded, narrowminded, inflexible, narrow minded, intransigent, staunch, impersuadable, more...

Opposite:
open-minded, receptive, accepting, tolerant

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Similar:
closed-minded, narrow-minded, narrow, closedminded, narrowminded, inflexible, narrow minded, intransigent, staunch, impersuadable, more...

Opposite:
open-minded, receptive, accepting, tolerant



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