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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having the restricted outlook often characteristic of geographic isolation: limited, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, provincial, small-town. See LIMITED. 2. Far from centers of human population: back, isolated, lonely, lonesome, obscure, outlying, out-of-the-way, remote, removed, secluded, solitary. Idioms: off the beaten path (or track) . See NEAR.
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