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clannish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective clannish has 2 senses
- clannish(s = adj.all) Array - characteristic of a clan especially in being unified; "clannish loyalty"
- clannish(s = adj.all) cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby - befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior; Array Derived form noun clannishness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
clannish, a.
Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
clannish, adj. usu. derog.
1 (of a family or group) tending to hold together.
2 of or like a clan.
1 (of a family or group) tending to hold together.
2 of or like a clan.
Derivative
clannishly adv. clannishness n.
THESAURUS
clannish
arrogant, cliquey, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, elect, ethnic, ethnocentric, exclusive, family, genetic, gentile, gentilic, haughty, lineal, national, phyletic, phylogenetic, racial, scornful, select, selective, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, totemic, tribal, withering
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