insular

IPA: ˈɪnsʌɫɝ

Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
Situated on an island.
Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little interaction with external parties; provincial.
Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
(anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain.
(biochemistry) Relating to insulin.
(linguistics, anthropology) (often with a capital letter) Relating to the varieties of a language or languages spoken chiefly on islands. Insular Latin, Latin as it was spoken in Britain and Ireland. Insular Celtic, the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and also Brittany, as opposed to those spoken in mainland Europe other than Brittany. Insular Scandinavian, relating to the Icelandic and Faroese languages as opposed to the ones spoken in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Examples of "insular" in Sentences

: We have often been called insular, and isolationist,: Aroon replied.
North Dakota politics is often called insular, but this looks like a political version of
Another word Dido often uses is "insular" -- that one describes not her music but herself.
Literally the insular was a floating population, and derived the advantage of intercommunication.
The fairly unprecedented pomp of Friday's White House farewell ceremony for Rahm Emanuel speaks to his power and ubiquitousness in insular Washington, as he prepares to run for Mayor of Chicago.
And I'm glad that he is happy in insular little SMA - it's a lovely city - but when I visited there a year or so ago, I found that so many of the local extranjeros seemed to consider themselves so cool just because they could afford to live there that I was almost embarrassed by it.
The fact is that the “silence” on Afghanistan has been most defeaning from the cultural relativist self-described “progressives”, whose actions on Afghanistan can only be described as insular and isolated, leaving women in the third world utterly alone as they struggle for the very rights that feminists here pretend to uphold.