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narrow

adjective

1 the path became narrower and more overgrown:

small, tapered, tapering, narrowing, narrow-gauged;

archaic strait.

▷antonyms wide, broad.

2 he slid his arm around her narrow waist:

slender, slim, lean, slight, spare, attenuated, thin;

rare attenuate.

▷antonyms broad.

3 he eased himself out of the narrow space:

confined, cramped, tight, close, restricted, limited, constricted, confining, pinched, squeezed, meagre, scant, scanty, spare;

rare incommodious, exiguous, incapacious.

▷antonyms spacious.

4 a narrow range of products | her experience of life was very narrow:

limited, restricted, circumscribed, straitened, small, inadequate, insufficient, deficient, lacking, wanting;

select, exclusive.

▷antonyms wide, broad.

5 a narrow view of the world:

narrow-minded, intolerant, illiberal, reactionary, conservative, ultra-conservative, conventional, parochial, provincial, insular, small-town, localist, small-minded, petty-minded, petty, close-minded, short-sighted, myopic, blinkered, inward-looking, hidebound, dyed-in-the-wool, diehard, limited, restricted, inflexible, dogmatic, rigid, entrenched, prejudiced, bigoted, biased, partisan, sectarian, discriminatory;

prudish, priggish, strait-laced, stuffy, puritanical, moralistic, prim, starchy, prissy, shockable;

racist, racialist, chauvinistic, chauvinist, sexist, nationalistic;

British parish-pump, blimpish;

French borné;

North American, informal jerkwater;

rare claustral.

▷antonyms broad-minded, tolerant.

6 this is nationalism in the narrowest sense of the word:

strict, literal, exact, precise, close, faithful, true.

7 a narrow victory | a narrow escape:

marginal;

lucky.

verb

the path narrowed and we had to proceed in single file |

it narrowed the gap between rich and poor:

get/become/make narrower, get/become/make smaller, taper, diminish, decrease, reduce, contract, shrink, constrict;

archaic straiten.

narrow Oxford Dictionary of English