Definitions for the word "Narrow" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. superl.
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. superl.
Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. superl.
Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. superl.
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. superl.
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. t.
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. i.
To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v. i.
Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. v. i.
To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. adj.
(-er, -est) 1 a of small width. B confined or confining (within narrow bounds). 2 of limited scope (in the narrowest sense). 3 with little margin (narrow escape). 4 precise; exact. 5 = *narrow-minded. n. (usu. In pl.) Narrow part of a strait, river, pass, street, etc. v. Become or make narrow; contract; lessen. narrowly adv. Narrowness n. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
17. slang
mean, sordid.—_Scotch._ In common slang, dull of
comprehension, as distinguished from wide awake.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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