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164. Hidebound - C2 Vocabulary

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 9. 12.
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Hidebound : 완고한, 지독히 보수적인, 편협한, 변통이 없는

hideboundness : 편협함, 피골이 상접함

 

If you describe somebody or system as hidebound

Fixed opinions 

Fixed way of doing things

It is not willing to change, It is not looking for new ideas

Somebody or something are stuck in the past

Ultra conservative / reactionary / super conventional / super orthodox / inflexible

His politics are so hidebound that nothing is going to change

Hidebound methodology

Stubborn / narrow-minded / inflexible / rigid / puritan / straight[strait]-laced / set in your ways

Bigoted / close-minded / intolerant

Opposite to liberal, flexible, unconventional, unorthodox

Restricted by petty rules and by conservative traditionalist attitudes

 

You can call a book as hidebound

Leather-bound book is a hidebound

Use for animals or tree that are stuck to the skin or stuck to the internal skin, cf) hidebound disease

 

Formality : 6 - 6.5

 

 

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