Translate insular | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of insular
adjective
1ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one’s own experience:a stubbornly insular farming people lacking contact with other people:people living restricted and sometimes insular existences
2of, relating to, or from an island:the movement of goods of insular origin of or 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 of or relating to the insula of the brain.
