Narrow means less wide or to make less wide. When you narrow down your choices, you decrease the number of choices. A road might be too narrow for a car.
Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side;
Noun
a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
Verb
become tight or as if tight; "Her throat constricted"
Verb
make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
Verb
become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers"
Verb
define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"
Adjective
lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"
Adjective S.
characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
Adjective S.
limited in size or scope; "the narrow sense of a word"
Adjective
not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page"
Adjective
very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape"
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.
superl.
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
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.
superl.
Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow
circumstances.
superl.
Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as,
a narrow mind; narrow views.
superl.
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
superl.
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
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.
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.
v. t.
To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a
smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
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.
v. t.
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two
stitches into one.
v. i.
To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower;
as, the sea narrows into a strait.
v. i.
Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as,
a horse narrows.
v. i.
To contract the size of a stocking or other knit
article, by taking two stitches into one.
Narrow
Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas.2.
The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.3.
A very narrow and stinted charity.7.
But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied.8.
Narrow
Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.
Narrow
Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings.3.
Narrow
Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side;
A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural;
To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower;
Usage Examples
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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Other Usage ExamplesReligions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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