insular

Meanings

Adjective

• Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
• Situated on an island.
• Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little interaction with external parties; provincial.
• Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
• Relating to the insula in the brain.
• Relating to insulin.

Noun

• An islander.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin insularis ("of or belonging to an island"), from insula, perhaps, from in + salum.