insular

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or being, pertaining to, situated on, or resembling an island or islands.

   “Near-synonym: islandic”

2. sıfat Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little regard for others opinions or prejudices; provincial.

   “Near-synonym: peninsular”

3. sıfat Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.

   “Harriet was fretful and insular. Miss Abbott was pleasant, and insisted on praising everything: her only regret was that she had no pretty clothes with her.”

4. sıfat Relating to the insula in the brain.
5. sıfat Relating to insulin.
6. sıfat (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.
7. isim An islander.

   “these insulars in general live in a gross saline air , and their vessels being less elastic are consequently less able to subdue and cast off what their bodies as sponges draw in”