narrow

narrow is a 6-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
2. superlative. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
3. superlative. 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.
4. superlative. Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
5. superlative. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
6. superlative. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
7. superlative. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
8. superlative. 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.
9. noun. 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.
10. transitive verb. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
11. transitive verb. 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.
12. transitive verb. To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
13. intransitive verb. To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
14. intransitive verb. Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
15. intransitive verb. To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
16. noun. a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
17. verb. become tight or as if tight

    "Her throat constricted"

    Synonyms: constrict, constringe

18. verb. make or become more narrow or restricted

    "The selection was narrowed"

    "The road narrowed"

    Synonyms: contract

19. verb. become more focus on an area of activity or field of study

    "She specializes in Near Eastern history"

    Synonyms: specialise, specialize

20. verb. define clearly

    "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"

    Synonyms: specify

21. adjective. lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view

    "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"

    "narrow opinions"

22. adjective. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination

    "a minute inspection of the grounds"

    "a narrow scrutiny"

    Synonyms: minute

23. adjective. limited in size or scope

    "the narrow sense of a word"

24. adjective. not wide

    "a narrow bridge"

    "a narrow line across the page"

25. adjective. very limited in degree

    "won by a narrow margin"

    "a narrow escape"

Synonyms

constrict, constringe, contract, specialise, specialize, specify, minute

Common word forms

narrows, narrowed, narrower, narrowly, narrowest, narrowing, narrowness

Words from these letters

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