Definitions for narrow
  • Narrow (superl.) - Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
  • Narrow (superl.) - Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  • Narrow (superl.) - Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
  • Narrow (superl.) - Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
  • Narrow (superl.) - Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
  • Narrow (superl.) - Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  • Narrow (superl.) - Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  • Narrow (superl.) - Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
  • Narrow (n.) - A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
  • Narrow (v. t.) - To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
  • Narrow (v. t.) - To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
  • Narrow (v. t.) - To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
  • Narrow (v. i.) - To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
  • Narrow (v. i.) - Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
  • Narrow (v. i.) - To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
  • Narrowed (imp. & p. p.) - of Narrow
  • Narrower (n.) - One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.
  • Narrowing (n.) - The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.
  • Narrowing (n.) - The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
  • Narrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Narrow
  • Narrowings - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Narrowness (n.) - The condition or quality of being narrow.
  • Narrownesses - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Narrows (pl. ) - of Narrow
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