narrow
Meaning of narrow
adjective
- of small width in relation to length.
he made his way down the narrow road
- limited in extent, amount, or scope.
they ate a narrow range of foods
- denoting or relating to a contest that is won or lost by only a very small margin.
the home team just hung on for a narrow victory
- denoting a vowel pronounced with the root of the tongue drawn back so as to narrow the pharynx.
- become or make less wide.
the road narrowed and crossed an old bridge
the Victoria Embankment was built to narrow the river
- become or make more limited in extent or scope.
the gap between the sexes is narrowing
the trade surplus narrowed to £70 m in January
the committee narrowed the selection to three designers
- a narrow channel connecting two larger areas of water.
there was a car ferry across the narrows of Loch Long
Old English nearu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch naar ‘dismal, unpleasant’ and German Narbe ‘scar’. Early senses in English included ‘constricted’ and ‘mean’.
Information about narrow
- The plural form of narrow is: narrows.
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Hyphenation of narrow
nar-row
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- narrow is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
narrow synonyms
Meaning minute:
Meaning contract:
Meaning pin down:
Meaning specialize:
Meaning constrict:
Meaning of a size that is less than normal or usual:
Meaning diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end:
Meaning becoming thinner or narrower towards one end:
Meaning become or make less wide:
Meaning (of a place) of limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped:
Meaning (of a person or part of the body) gracefully thin:
Meaning (of a thing) small in width and typically long and narrow in shape:
Meaning be in or move into a sloping position:
Meaning small in degree; inconsiderable:
Meaning additional to what is required for ordinary use:
Meaning having been reduced in force, effect, or value:
Meaning with opposite surfaces or sides that are close or relatively close together:
Meaning reduced in force, effect, or physical thickness:
Meaning (of a space) restricted in area or volume; cramped:
Meaning uncomfortably small or restricted:
Meaning fixed, fastened, or closed firmly; hard to move, undo, or open:
Meaning only a short distance away or apart in space or time:
Meaning limited in extent, number, scope, or action:
Meaning restricted in size, amount, or extent; few, small, or short:
Meaning narrowed, especially by encircling pressure:
Meaning keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time):
Meaning tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger:
Meaning firmly press (something soft or yielding), typically with one's fingers:
Meaning (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality:
Meaning barely sufficient or adequate:
Meaning small or insufficient in quantity or amount:
Meaning causing inconvenience or discomfort:
Meaning very small in size or amount:
Meaning narrow and confined:
Meaning restrict (something) within limits:
Meaning characterized by poverty:
Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:
Meaning not enough; inadequate:
Meaning not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient:
Meaning not available or in short supply:
Meaning lacking in a required or necessary quality:
Meaning (of a group of people or things) carefully chosen from a larger number as being the best or most valuable:
Meaning excluding or not admitting other things:
Meaning relating to or at the edge or margin:
Meaning having, bringing, or resulting from good luck:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning make or become narrow:
Meaning vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear:
Meaning the part of a person's or animal's body connecting the head to the rest of the body:
Meaning a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas:
Meaning a river, canal, or other route for travel by water:
Meaning the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another:
narrow antonyms
Meaning of great or more than average width:
Meaning having a distance larger than usual from side to side; wide:
Meaning (especially of a room or building) having ample space:
Translation of narrow
- Spanish: estrecho, estrecha, estrechar, contraer, ceñir
- German: schmal, eng
- French: étroit, rétrécir, étrécir
- Portuguese: estreito, estreitar
- Italian: stretto, restringere, contrarre, ridurre
Words that rhyme with narrow
Barrow, Darrow, Farrow, Harrow, Jarrow, Scarrow, Sparrow, arrow, backarrow, barrow, carrow, cocksparrow, farrow, hackbarrow, handbarrow, harrow, hurlbarrow, marrow, overnarrow, oxharrow, reharrow, restharrow, sarrow, scarrow, sparrow, straightarrow, tarrow, trackbarrow, unnarrow, upharrow, wharrow, wheelbarrow, yarrow, Merrow, interrow, merrow, Borrow, Morrow, borrow, ensorrow, morrow, orrow, overborrow, oversorrow, reborrow, sorrow, superborrow, tomorrow, overmorrow, Burrow
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