Hidebound

Quick meaning: Hidebound is an adjective meaning Bound with the hide of an animal.

Meaning

Bound with the hide of an animal.

More Meanings

1. (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
2. (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
3. (figurative, of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
4. (obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.

Example Sentences

But no matter where their place of residence, they were always accompanied by the hidebound chest that held the family papers.

Oh, I know he's a good fellow—you needn't frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant blatant pedant.

Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life.

Some of the horses were looking hidebound, and I promised the sergeant that I'd buy a couple of hundredweight of linseed for them when I went on leave. Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions.

Word Forms

• hide-bound

Synonyms for hidebound

Depending on context, synonyms include traditionalist, conservative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include traditionalist, conservative, bounden, clothbound, chained, fettered.

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