Adjective

(en adjective)

Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

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Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to a parish.

Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel .

Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.

* 1918 , 1st of February, "

But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.

* 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:

Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .