clannish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: clan=nish

CIDE DICTIONARY

clannish, a. 

 Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

clannish, adj. usu. derog.
1 (of a family or group) tending to hold together.
2 of or like a clan.

Derivative

clannishly adv. clannishness n.

THESAURUS

clannish

arrogant, cliquey, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, elect, ethnic, ethnocentric, exclusive, family, genetic, gentile, gentilic, haughty, lineal, national, phyletic, phylogenetic, racial, scornful, select, selective, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, totemic, tribal, withering