Definitions for hidebound

hidebound hide·bound

Spelling: [hahyd-bound]
IPA: /ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd/

Hidebound is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 234 anagrams from letters in hidebound (bddehinou).

Definitions for hidebound

adjective

  1. narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible:
  2. oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative:
  3. (of a horse, cow, etc.) having the back and ribs bound tightly by the hide.

Origin of hidebound

First recorded in 1550-60; hide2 + -bound1

Examples for hidebound

The GOP is still struggling to shed its hidebound, out-of-touch image, especially with voters not yet drawing Social Security.

In the matter of evening costume, you see, Jeeves is hidebound and reactionary.

It is more free and easy, not so hidebound and overrun with hypocrisy.

But I should be sorry for you to think me hidebound in my prejudices.

Change is a necessary part of life, even in hidebound Washington.

He comes from a part of the country that's not so hidebound by caste as this country.

I am thankful that Lady Hamilton and I are not hidebound by any such superstitions.

Not depraved, certainly, unless you insist on judging it by a hidebound ethic.

The Amphibs were, in their way, as hidebound—no pun intended—as the Land-walkers.

Now this young zealot was a man of imagination, hidebound only in his traditions.

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