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The Collaborative International Dictionary
closed-minded

closed-minded \closed-minded\ adj. not ready to receive new ideas.

Syn: close-minded.

Wiktionary
closed-minded

a. (alternative form of close-minded English)

WordNet
closed-minded

adj. not ready to receive to new ideas [syn: close-minded]

Usage examples of "closed-minded".

Norist might be a closed-minded Craftmaster, but he blew elegant glass when he had a mind to, and in the exact shade of harper blue.

If he was sufficiently closed-minded to reject all the recent scientific evidence of treecat intelligence and capabilities, he would undoubtedly consider any human who claimed the same empathic ability was obviously insane.

In an open-minded person the expansion of the energy can be tremendous, whereas closed-minded people literally draw their minds in so that not only are they unreceptive to new ideas but they have also cut themselves off from the ability to attune to other people and even to nature.

Yet there are still closed-minded people who claim that at best they have nothing to offer and at worst they are charlatans.

Some of the more closed-minded Miss World participants were already carping about the upcoming stoning of a Nigerian woman, in accordance with Islamic Sharia law.