Usually means: Resistant to change, very traditional.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word hidebound:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hidebound: Merriam-Webster
  2. hidebound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hidebound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hidebound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hidebound: Vocabulary.com
  6. hidebound: Wordnik
  7. hidebound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hidebound: Wiktionary
  9. hidebound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hidebound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hidebound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hidebound: Dictionary.com
  13. hidebound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hidebound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hidebound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hidebound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hidebound: Rhymezone
  18. Hidebound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hidebound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hidebound: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hidebound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hidebound: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hidebound: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hidebound: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hidebound: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hidebound: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hidebound: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Bound with the hide of an animal.
adjective:  (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
adjective:  (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
adjective:  (figurative, of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
adjective:  (obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.

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