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Narrow

adjective

(compar. narrower; superl. narrowest)

Not wide. "A narrow line across the page" Antonym: wide.

Limited in size or scope.

Lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view. Synonym: narrow-minded. "Narrow opinions" Antonym: broad-minded.

Very limited in degree. "A narrow escape" Antonym: wide.

Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination. Synonym: minute. "A narrow scrutiny" , "An exact and minute report"

verb

(past & past part. narrowed; pres. part. narrowing)

Make or become more narrow or restricted. Synonym: contract. "The road narrowed" Antonym: widen.

Define clearly. Synonyms: nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify.

Become more focus on an area of activity or field of study. Synonyms: narrow down, specialise, specialize. Antonym: diversify.

Become tight or as if tight. Synonyms: constrict, constringe.

noun

(pl. narrows)

A narrow strait connecting two bodies of water.

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"Narrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... theories of the so-called advanced thinkers, whom your aunt taught you to believe in—these ideas that love and wealth cannot exist together, are prejudices as narrow and as blind as those of an opposite kind which have sapped the natures of certain members ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... you at the close of last lecture against the too agreeable vanity of supposing that the Evangelization of the world began at St. Martin's, Canterbury. Again and again you will indeed find the stream of the Gospel contracting itself into narrow channels, and appearing, after long-concealed filtration, through veins of unmeasured rock, with the bright resilience of a mountain spring. But you will find it the only candid, and therefore the only wise, way of research, ...

— The Pleasures of England - Lectures given in Oxford • John Ruskin

... through the narrow streets at midnight, seeking a quarrel, they passed the house ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... after the fuse was lighted he had fallen over one of the large rocks and, striking his leg on another stone, had broken the bone above the knee. He suffered not a little when the boys were drawing him out at the narrow chink beside the rock; but he was alive, and that was a matter ...

— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens

... the majority of the people were derived directly from the spoken Latin, and in time developed into Provenal and French. In the kingdom of Louis the German, on the other hand, both people and language were German. The narrow strip of country between these regions, which fell to Lothaire, came to be called Lotharii regnum, or kingdom of Lothaire.[53] This name was perverted in time into Lotharingia and, later, into Lorraine. It is interesting to note that this territory has formed ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

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