/ ˈhaɪdbaʊnd; NAmE / adjective
( disapproving ) having old-fashioned ideas, rather than accepting new ways of thinking
SYN narrow-minded
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle): from hide animal skin + bound restrained . The earliest sense of the adjective (referring to cattle) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense narrow in outlook .