Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Arabic term or phrase:
فكره معقد
English translation:
Narrow-minded
Arabic term
United Kingdom
Spanish and Arabic into English, MA
Native in: English (Variants: UK, British)
Works in: Spanish to English, Arabic to English
فكره معقد
I'm wondering if you can help me to translate this idiomatically into US English. It appears in a few isolated sentences in a project I am working on:
- أصحاب الفكر المعقد لا يستطيعون تكوين صداقات طويلة
- نفر منه كل أصدقائه لأن فكره معقد
- لا تكن ذا فكر معقد وكن منفتحًا محبًا للحياة
I came up with 'complex-minded' but it doesn't sound very idiomatic. I'm grateful for your thoughts.
Thank you in advance for your help :)
| 5 +1 | Narrow-minded |
Mowafak Mohamed
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| 5 | close-minded |
mohamed gad
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| 4 | Cognitively rigidity |
Yassine El Bouknify
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| 3 | limited mindset |
Dalia Nour
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Mar 17, 2023 12:55: Mowafak Mohamed Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
Egypt
Thinking. Translating. Captivating.
Native in: Arabic (Variants: UAE, Jordanian, Yemeni, Kuwaiti, Standard-Arabian (MSA), Saudi , Egyptian) 
Works in: Arabic to English, English to Arabic
Narrow-minded
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Egypt
Accuracy Matters!
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Sudanese, Egyptian, Saudi , UAE, Lebanese, Syrian, Standard-Arabian (MSA))
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, Arabic
limited mindset
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Morocco
Literature,Marketing & Legal Translation
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Kuwaiti, Najdi, Standard-Arabian (MSA), Hassaniya, Moroccan, UAE) , Berber (Other) (Variants: Tashelhit , Riffian, Central Atlas Tamazight, Tamazight , Standard Moroccan Tamazight, Tarifit ) 
Works in: English to Arabic, French to Arabic, Arabic to English, and 21 more.
Cognitively rigidity
OR probably:
Because he's dogmatic
Cognitive rigidity is “difficulty changing mental sets.” Simply put, this means switching from thinking about things one way to thinking about them a different way. (People who can do this easily are said to have "cognitive flexibility" — the opposite of cognitive rigidity.)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/making-sense-autisti...
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close-minded
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