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- English Word Insular Definition Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
- English Word Insular Definition Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.
- English Word Insular Definition An islander.
- English Word Insularity Definition The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
- English Word Insularity Definition Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.
- English Word Insularly Definition In an insular manner.
- English Word Insulary Definition Insular.
- English Word Insulate Definition To make an island of.
- English Word Insulate Definition To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.
- English Word Insulate Definition To prevent the transfer o/ electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors.
- English Word Insulated Definition of Insulate
- English Word Insulated Definition Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
- English Word Insulated Definition Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity.
- English Word Insulated Definition Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible.
- English Word Insulating Definition of Insulate
- English Word Insulation Definition The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
- English Word Insulation Definition The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated.
- English Word Insulator Definition One who, or that which, insulates.
- English Word Insulator Definition The substance or body that insulates; a nonconductor.
- English Word Insulite Definition An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.
- English Word Insulous Definition Abounding in islands.
- English Word Insulse Definition Insipid; dull; stupid.
- English Word Insulsity Definition Insipidity; stupidity; dullness.
- English Word Insult Definition The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
- English Word Insult Definition Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
- English Word Insult Definition To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
- English Word Insult Definition To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
- English Word Insult Definition To leap or jump.
- English Word Insult Definition To behave with insolence; to exult.
- English Word Insultable Definition Capable of being insulted or affronted.