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in·su·lar - ˈins(y)ǝlǝr 

adjective

farming people.

1 ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience: a stubbornly insular

• lacking contact with other people: people living restricted and sometimes insular existences.

2 relating to or from an island: the movement of goods of insular origin.

• relating to the art and craftwork of Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages, especially a form of Latin

handwriting: insular illumination of the 6th century.

• (of climate) equable because of the influence of the sea.

3 Anatomy relating to the insula of the brain.

 

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