Synonyms and Antonyms of hidebound
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
- the hidebound innkeeper refused to see the need for a Web site, insisting that the inn had done without one for over 150 years
archconservative, brassbound, button-down (or buttoned-down), conservative, die-hard, mossbacked, old-fashioned, old-line, old-school, orthodox, paleoconservative, reactionary, standpat, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unprogressive
conventional, square
devoted, faithful, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true, true-blue
blimpish, neoconservative, Tory, ultraright, ultrarightist
dowdy, fogyish (or fogeyish), fuddy-duddy, ossified, set, stodgy
right, right-wing
antiliberal, antimodern, antiprogressive, antireform, antirevolutionary
anticonventional, antiestablishment, antitraditional, extremist, radical, revolutionary
nonconformist
advanced, contemporary, modern
lefty, radical, ultraleft, ultraleftist, ultraprogressive, ultraradical
broad-minded, large-minded, liberal, nonconservative, nonconventional, nonorthodox, nontraditional, open-minded, progressive, unconventional, unorthodox
