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What is another word for inward-looking?

Need synonyms for inward-looking? Here's a list of similar words from our thesaurus that you can use instead.

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Not interested in or taking account of other people or groups

(of a person, action, or motive) Making decisions based solely on one's own self-interest or personal profit

Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences

Reserved or uncommunicative in nature or character

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Not interested in or taking account of other people or groups

set in one's opinions

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“The party was written off as an authoritarian, inward-looking dinosaur, made obsolete by the country's opening to the global economy.”

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(of a person, action, or motive) Making decisions based solely on one's own self-interest or personal profit

looking after number one

on the make

out for what one can get

wrapped up in oneself

looking out for number one

wrapped up with oneself

know-it-all

having a swelled head

patronizing^US

too big for your boots

patronising^UK

think too highly of oneself

pleased with oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

too big for your breeches

assuming

think a lot of oneself

in love with yourself

self-contained

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

pleased with yourself

think one is God's gift

calculating

careerist

fortune-hunting

out for what you can get

phony^US

phoney^UK

blowing one's own trumpet

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Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences

with your head in the clouds

Adjective

Reserved or uncommunicative in nature or character

mom^US

mum^UK

wintery^UK

wintry^US

gray^US

grey^UK

colorless^US

colourless^UK

playing your cards close to your chest

keeping people at arm's length

unwilling to mix with other people

wouldn't say boo to a goose

keeping a low profile

just watching the clock

not given to excesses

in control of yourself

corked up

steady

self-possessed

cool, calm and collected

sombre^UK

somber^US

without fear or favour

not giving a monkey's

free from discrimination

free from self-interest

emotionally unavailable

rolling with the punches

labored^US

laboured^UK

with a heart of stone

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What is another word for inward-looking?

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