insular

 
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsjʊlə/

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
  • 2relating to or from an island: goods of insular origin
  • relating to a form of Latin handwriting used in Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages: 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.

Derivatives

insularly

adverb

Origin:

mid 16th century (as a noun denoting an islander): from late Latin insularis, from insula 'island'