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Synonyms for Narrow:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)

  • narrow.

  • bigoted (adjective)

  • more warped,
  • warped,
  • un fair,
  • opinionated,
  • obstinate,
  • small minded,
  • un fairest,
  • most chauvinistic,
  • un fairer,
  • un-fairest,
  • smallminded,
  • un-fair,
  • more chauvinistic,
  • un-fairer,
  • most warped.

  • borne (adjective)

  • most rode,
  • more braved,
  • more tolerated,
  • most tolerated,
  • more rode,
  • more endured,
  • most toted,
  • Tolerated,
  • more toted,
  • Endured,
  • most braved,
  • most endured.

  • carried (adjective)

  • Borne.

  • cheap, stingy (adjective)

  • mercenary,
  • avaricious.

  • clannish (adjective)

  • cliquish,
  • associative,
  • unreceptive.

  • close (adjective)

  • pennypinching,
  • skinflint,
  • close-grained,
  • niggardly,
  • penurious,
  • mingy,
  • neck and neck,
  • tight-fisted.

  • confined, restricted (adjective)

  • tapering,
  • pent,
  • fixed,
  • shrunken,
  • constricted,
  • scant,
  • circumscribed,
  • pinched,
  • fine,
  • contracted,
  • determinate,
  • attenuated,
  • taper,
  • threadlike,
  • Incapacious,
  • set,
  • meager,
  • compressed,
  • slim,
  • limited,
  • tapered,
  • select,
  • linear,
  • spare.

  • conventional (adjective)

  • up tight,
  • more doctrinal,
  • de-mure,
  • more straight laced,
  • straight laced,
  • most straight-laced,
  • more straight-laced,
  • rubest,
  • stereo-typed,
  • de mure,
  • stereo typed,
  • lamest,
  • most isolationist,
  • more straightlaced,
  • rube,
  • hidebound,
  • most straightlaced,
  • most doctrinal,
  • in-flexible,
  • most straight laced,
  • more isolationist,
  • up-tight,
  • in flexible.

  • cramped (adjective)

  • more pent,
  • un-comfortable,
  • most pent,
  • in-commodious,
  • more squeezed,
  • un comfortable,
  • in-decipherable,
  • more two by four,
  • more two-by-four,
  • tiny,
  • most two-by-four,
  • in decipherable,
  • most squeezed,
  • two by four,
  • most crabbed,
  • most two by four,
  • in commodious.

  • definite (adjective)

  • pre scribed,
  • de-finite,
  • de terminate,
  • de-fined,
  • more assigned,
  • de-terminate,
  • pre-scribed,
  • de finite,
  • more defined,
  • de fined,
  • most assigned,
  • most defined.

  • detailed (adjective)

  • most unfolded,
  • more circumstantiated,
  • most described,
  • most point by point,
  • de-scribed,
  • more disclosed,
  • most circumstantiated,
  • more point by point,
  • dis-closed,
  • more elaborate,
  • de tailed,
  • more described,
  • in-dividual,
  • more enumerated,
  • most seriatim,
  • allinclusive,
  • ex-act,
  • more amplified,
  • most enumerated,
  • un folded,
  • most point-by-point,
  • point-by-point,
  • in dividual,
  • more point-by-point,
  • more elaborated,
  • more clocklike,
  • all inclusive,
  • dis closed,
  • de scribed,
  • un-folded,
  • most clocklike,
  • co pious,
  • more unfolded,
  • ex act,
  • de-tailed,
  • co-pious,
  • more seriatim,
  • most disclosed,
  • most elaborated,
  • most amplified,
  • more individualized,
  • most individualized.

  • exclusive (adjective)

  • un divided,
  • in dependent,
  • most exclusory,
  • more exclusory,
  • un-divided,
  • dis-criminative,
  • in-dependent,
  • more exclusionary,
  • upper crust,
  • dis criminative,
  • most exclusionary.

  • exiguous (adjective)

  • in-adequate,
  • in adequate.

  • fixed (adjective)

  • un-modifiable,
  • more prearranged,
  • more unmodifiable,
  • most neverfailing,
  • more set up,
  • never failing,
  • pre arranged,
  • in bag,
  • un movable,
  • more rigged,
  • un-qualified,
  • most setup,
  • un blinking,
  • un qualified,
  • most set-up,
  • un flinching,
  • more undeviating,
  • un-blinking,
  • unmodifiable,
  • most stipulated,
  • most arranged,
  • more arranged,
  • un modifiable,
  • un-deviating,
  • most undeviating,
  • un deviating,
  • most never-failing,
  • in alterable,
  • pre-arranged,
  • more set-up,
  • un changeable,
  • more resolved,
  • in-alterable,
  • un wavering,
  • more agreed,
  • more never failing,
  • more unblinking,
  • re-solved,
  • un bending,
  • un faltering,
  • more neverfailing,
  • un-wavering,
  • most unmodifiable,
  • most prearranged,
  • more stipulated,
  • more setup,
  • in the bag,
  • most set up,
  • most never failing,
  • un-flinching,
  • un-bending,
  • neverfailing,
  • most rigged,
  • more never-failing,
  • most resolved,
  • un-faltering,
  • un-changeable,
  • un-movable,
  • most agreed,
  • most unblinking.

  • hard-fisted (adjective)

  • more niggard,
  • hard fisted,
  • most niggard.

  • insular (adjective)

  • most inwardlooking,
  • more inwardlooking,
  • more inward looking,
  • more inward-looking,
  • inward looking,
  • most sequestered,
  • inwardlooking,
  • most inward-looking,
  • most inward looking,
  • more contracted,
  • most contracted,
  • inward-looking,
  • more sequestered.

  • intolerant (adjective)

  • up-set,
  • tilted,
  • un sympathetic,
  • more outraged,
  • most short fuse,
  • out raged,
  • unindulgent,
  • un indulgent,
  • un charitable,
  • more workedup,
  • most shortfuse,
  • anti pathetic,
  • more shortfuse,
  • un-indulgent,
  • shortfuse,
  • in-tolerant,
  • un-charitable,
  • more short-fuse,
  • most racialist,
  • more worked-up,
  • more tilted,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • un willing,
  • most tilted,
  • out-raged,
  • most communist,
  • most worked-up,
  • xenophobic,
  • onesided,
  • un-willing,
  • more xenophobic,
  • more short fuse,
  • more unindulgent,
  • one sided,
  • individualistic,
  • most outraged,
  • in tolerant,
  • workedup,
  • more worked up,
  • more racialist,
  • more communist,
  • un forbearing,
  • un-forbearing,
  • most worked up,
  • most short-fuse,
  • most unindulgent,
  • fractious,
  • most workedup,
  • most xenophobic.

  • intolerant, small-minded (adjective)

  • inexorable,
  • biased,
  • reactionary,
  • obdurate,
  • partial.

  • lank (adjective)

  • most fleshless,
  • all skin bones,
  • Fleshless,
  • thin as a rail,
  • all skin and bones,
  • more fleshless,
  • thin as rail.

  • little (adjective)

  • short,
  • diminutive,
  • low,
  • concise,
  • minute,
  • little,
  • puny,
  • brief,
  • self-centered,
  • delicate,
  • compact,
  • least,
  • succinct,
  • few.

  • local (adjective)

  • more divisional,
  • most district,
  • most parish,
  • townest,
  • most neighborhood,
  • most divisional,
  • more district,
  • more parish,
  • more neighborhood.

  • meager (adjective)

  • scraggier,
  • more rattleboned,
  • most beanstalk,
  • more beanstalk,
  • most broomstick,
  • most beanpole,
  • most rattleboned,
  • lithe,
  • most stinted,
  • more broomstick,
  • more beanpole,
  • more stinted,
  • skin bones,
  • more starved.

  • mean (adjective)

  • down-at-heel,
  • down at heel,
  • second rate,
  • lowborn,
  • secondrate,
  • second class,
  • proletarian,
  • second-rate,
  • second-class,
  • menial.

  • narrow (adjective)

  • willowy,
  • skeletal,
  • lean,
  • lanky,
  • scrawny,
  • skinny.

  • narrow-minded (adjective)

  • Unenlarged.

  • neck and neck (adjective)

  • nip tuck,
  • neck neck.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • over-modest,
  • scraggy,
  • broomstick,
  • bigoted,
  • exiguous,
  • Unconsequential,
  • reedy,
  • clannish,
  • closed in,
  • Stalky,
  • scraggiest,
  • small town,
  • localized,
  • niggard,
  • claustrophobic,
  • straightlaced,
  • narrow-minded,
  • hard-shelled,
  • straight-laced,
  • precise,
  • chauvinistic,
  • gracile,
  • rattleboned,
  • up set,
  • derisory,
  • scanty,
  • ruffianly,
  • blow by blow,
  • seriatim,
  • in rut,
  • slender,
  • sexist,
  • local,
  • beyond doubt,
  • featherweight,
  • thin,
  • prejudiced,
  • worked-up,
  • parochial,
  • Exclusory,
  • not heretical,
  • mean,
  • undernourished,
  • small,
  • overmodest,
  • hardfisted,
  • prearranged,
  • lowdown,
  • provincial,
  • tenuous,
  • intolerant,
  • unblinking,
  • hard line,
  • two-by-four,
  • isolationist,
  • paltry,
  • swank,
  • tough,
  • Clocklike,
  • socially correct,
  • over-nice,
  • jammed in,
  • beanstalk,
  • scrimpy,
  • short-fuse,
  • set-up,
  • twiggy,
  • selfish,
  • definite,
  • close,
  • Exclusionary,
  • Circumstantiated,
  • head-strong,
  • sticker,
  • barely sufficient,
  • towner,
  • point by point,
  • ungenerous,
  • hardbitten,
  • exclusive,
  • weedy,
  • small-town,
  • low-down,
  • hardboiled,
  • ruber,
  • hardnosed,
  • stingy,
  • skin and bones,
  • cramped,
  • detailed,
  • poler,
  • racialist,
  • sylphlike,
  • at length,
  • preconceived,
  • doctrinal,
  • tight,
  • sectional,
  • divisional,
  • twiglike,
  • tucked up,
  • run of the mill,
  • undeviating,
  • never-failing,
  • lithesome,
  • lank.

  • paltry (adjective)

  • more low down,
  • un-important,
  • most low down,
  • low down,
  • more low-down,
  • un-consequential,
  • more derisory,
  • more lowdown,
  • more unconsequential,
  • piddling,
  • most unconsequential,
  • in-considerable,
  • most low-down,
  • un consequential,
  • most derisory,
  • most lowdown,
  • in considerable.

  • precise (adjective)

  • on the button,
  • on the money,
  • clear cut.

  • prejudiced (adjective)

  • pre-possessed,
  • most preconceived,
  • more leaning,
  • most leaning,
  • pre-conceived,
  • most sexist,
  • pre supposing,
  • most presupposing,
  • closedminded,
  • more preconceived,
  • closed minded,
  • pre-supposing,
  • pre possessed,
  • dis criminatory,
  • dis-criminatory,
  • pre-disposed,
  • pre conceived,
  • more sexist,
  • more presupposing.

  • provincial (adjective)

  • un-informed,
  • un sophisticated,
  • un informed,
  • un polished.

  • prudish (adjective)

  • over nice,
  • more overnice,
  • most overnice,
  • more overexact,
  • most simpering,
  • most overmodest,
  • over exact,
  • overnice,
  • over modest,
  • more overmodest,
  • overexact,
  • most overexact,
  • over-exact,
  • more simpering.

  • scant/scanty (adjective)

  • scrimpiest,
  • scrimpier.

  • sectional (adjective)

  • most separatist,
  • more separatist,
  • factional,
  • separatist,
  • more factional,
  • most factional.

  • selfish (adjective)

  • egomaniacal,
  • hoggish,
  • out for number one,
  • Self-interested,
  • wrapped up in oneself.

  • slender (adjective)

  • re-mote,
  • most lithesome,
  • more lithesome,
  • more gracile,
  • most gracile,
  • out side.

  • slender/slim (adjective)

  • stalkiest,
  • most attenuate,
  • more skeleton,
  • more sylphlike,
  • in substantial,
  • stickest,
  • in-substantial,
  • stalkier,
  • reediest,
  • more attenuate,
  • most sylphlike,
  • reedier,
  • most skeleton.

  • small (adjective)

  • small-fry,
  • pocket-sized,
  • small fry,
  • mini,
  • small-scale,
  • shrimper,
  • Toyer,
  • minor-league,
  • small time,
  • pint-sized,
  • bitty,
  • shrimp,
  • under-sized,
  • runty.

  • small-town (adjective)

  • smalltown.

  • stingy (adjective)

  • ironfisted,
  • scurvy,
  • Hard-fisted,
  • Pinchpenny,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • Pinching,
  • pennywise,
  • Ungiving.

  • tenuous (adjective)

  • most attenuated,
  • more attenuated.

  • thin (adjective)

  • under-nourished,
  • stilt,
  • most twiglike,
  • more featherweight,
  • most pinched,
  • most shriveled,
  • most undernourished,
  • polest,
  • under-weight,
  • stilter,
  • more pinched,
  • under nourished,
  • most shadow,
  • more undernourished,
  • under weight,
  • more twiglike,
  • most featherweight,
  • stiltest,
  • more shadow,
  • more shriveled.

  • tight (adjective)

  • skintight,
  • close-fitting.

  • tough (adjective)

  • ex-acting,
  • un manageable,
  • in tractable,
  • more ruffianly,
  • more hardshelled,
  • un forgiving,
  • re-solute,
  • most ruffianly,
  • more hard-shelled,
  • in-tractable,
  • ex acting,
  • un compromising,
  • un-compromising,
  • most hard-shelled,
  • hard boiled,
  • hardshelled,
  • un-alterable,
  • more hard shelled,
  • un alterable,
  • unforgiving,
  • hard bitten,
  • un-manageable,
  • most hardshelled,
  • un-forgiving,
  • re solute,
  • hard nosed,
  • most hard shelled,
  • un-controllable,
  • hardline,
  • hard shelled,
  • un controllable.

  • ungenerous (adjective)

  • un-generous,
  • un generous.

• n.

  •
  • stubborn,
  • inflexible,
  • bloody-minded,
  • ill-advised,
  • closed,
  • irrational,
  • imprudent.
  •
  • unsafe,
  • demanding,
  • near,
  • complicated,
  • precarious,
  • hard,
  • punishing,
  • arduous,
  • taxing,
  • dangerous,
  • challenging,
  • endangered,
  • be an effort,
  • difficult.
  •
  • within limits,
  • specific,
  • prohibitive,
  • limiting,
  • restrictive,
  • under control.

  • careful (noun)

  • careful.

  • close-minded (noun)

  • close-minded.

  • closed-minded (noun)

  • closed-minded.

  • constricting (noun)

  • constricting.

  • constrictive (noun)

  • constrictive.

  • constringe (noun)

  • constringe.

  • dogmatic (noun)

  • dogmatic.

  • dogmatical (noun)

  • dogmatical.

  • illiberal (noun)

  • illiberal.

  • marginal (noun)

  • marginal.

  • nail down (noun)

  • nail down.

  • narrow (noun)

  • specify,
  • narrowing,
  • small-minded,
  • petty,
  • straplike,
  • narrowed,
  • opinionative,
  • peg down,
  • bare,
  • narrow down,
  • self-opinionated.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • character trait,
  • sound,
  • movement,
  • amount,
  • size,
  • strait.

  • specialise (noun)

  • specialise.

  • specialize (noun)

  • specialize.

• v.

  • abridge (verb)

  • re-duce,
  • blue pencilled,
  • put nutshell,
  • puts nutshell,
  • putting nutshell,
  • de creasing,
  • re duce,
  • de creases,
  • blue pencilling,
  • re-duces,
  • de crease,
  • de-creased,
  • de-creases,
  • de creased,
  • de-crease,
  • puts in nutshell,
  • blue penciling,
  • blue penciled,
  • de-creasing,
  • blue pencils,
  • putting in nutshell,
  • re duces.

  • censor (verb)

  • with holds,
  • de-contaminated,
  • refuses transmission,
  • re-press,
  • re-viewed,
  • with held,
  • over seeing,
  • dropped the iron curtain,
  • over-seen,
  • re vile,
  • prevented publication,
  • bluepenciled,
  • de-contaminates,
  • de contaminates,
  • dropt the iron curtain,
  • scissors out,
  • preventing publication,
  • re-vile,
  • de contaminating,
  • in spect,
  • over-seeing,
  • with-hold,
  • re-strains,
  • dropping the iron curtain,
  • bluepencilled,
  • bluepenciling,
  • blue-penciled,
  • puts the lid on,
  • re pressed,
  • re-straining,
  • re pressing,
  • over-sees,
  • supervises communications,
  • de-contaminate,
  • blue-pencilled,
  • scissored out,
  • re views,
  • Exscinding,
  • scissoring out,
  • putting lid on,
  • re strain,
  • re strains,
  • exscinds,
  • in spects,
  • supervising communications,
  • re straining,
  • over sees,
  • re-viewing,
  • refused transmission,
  • in-spect,
  • re-pressing,
  • over seen,
  • dropping iron curtain,
  • with hold,
  • putting the lid on,
  • bluepencil,
  • refusing transmission,
  • re presses,
  • de-contaminating,
  • re view,
  • dropt iron curtain,
  • de contaminate,
  • with holding,
  • re-strain,
  • re press,
  • Exscinded,
  • re viewing,
  • drops iron curtain,
  • over-see,
  • prevents publication,
  • puts lid on,
  • drops the iron curtain,
  • bluepencils,
  • re viewed,
  • supervised communications,
  • re-view,
  • re-views,
  • re-presses,
  • over saw,
  • dropped iron curtain,
  • drop iron curtain,
  • with-holds,
  • over-saw,
  • over see,
  • de contaminated,
  • bluepencilling,
  • with-held,
  • blue-pencilling,
  • in-spects,
  • cleaning up.

  • compress (verb)

  • tele scoping,
  • densens,
  • presses together,
  • made brief,
  • forced into space,
  • boiled down,
  • forcing into space,
  • densifying,
  • densened,
  • de hydrates,
  • de-hydrates,
  • forces in to space,
  • forcing in to space,
  • de-hydrate,
  • densifies,
  • force in to space,
  • tele-scoped,
  • tele scoped,
  • densified,
  • boiling down,
  • densening,
  • tele-scoping,
  • de hydrate,
  • de hydrated,
  • syncopates,
  • de-hydrated,
  • de-hydrating,
  • forced in to space,
  • de hydrating,
  • makes brief,
  • pressing together,
  • making brief,
  • forces into space,
  • Syncopating.

  • concentrate (verb)

  • heaps up,
  • getting to the meat,
  • gotten the meat,
  • gets meat,
  • getting meat,
  • gat meat,
  • drew together,
  • gat the meat,
  • got to meat,
  • gets the meat,
  • gotten to meat,
  • got meat,
  • getting the meat,
  • draws together,
  • zeroes in,
  • get the meat,
  • getting to meat,
  • gets to meat,
  • got the meat,
  • gotten to the meat,
  • got to the meat,
  • get meat,
  • heaped up,
  • gat to meat,
  • gat to the meat,
  • gets to the meat,
  • zeroing in,
  • gotten meat.

  • constrict (verb)

  • astringes,
  • Astringed.

  • contract (verb)

  • sub-sided,
  • sub-sides,
  • draws in,
  • drawing in,
  • becomes smaller,
  • re-ceding,
  • re-cede,
  • fell away,
  • sub sided,
  • de clines,
  • sub-siding,
  • re ceded,
  • re ceding,
  • de-cline,
  • re cedes,
  • de cline,
  • de-clines,
  • sub siding,
  • re-cedes,
  • re-ceded,
  • becoming smaller,
  • grew less,
  • re cede,
  • growing less,
  • sub sides,
  • sub side,
  • sub-side.

  • lessen (verb)

  • took the sting out,
  • took the bite out,
  • de grading,
  • slowing down,
  • taking edge off,
  • softpedal,
  • de-escalated,
  • de-escalating,
  • rolled back,
  • take edge off,
  • de-graded,
  • de escalate,
  • takes the sting out,
  • deescalates,
  • de graded,
  • rolling back,
  • slacks up,
  • took sting out,
  • taking the edge off,
  • minifies,
  • de escalated,
  • wound down,
  • slows down,
  • taking the sting out,
  • de escalating,
  • take bite out,
  • took edge off,
  • winded down,
  • rolls back,
  • de grades,
  • taking the bite out,
  • took bite out,
  • de-grades,
  • takes edge off,
  • taking sting out,
  • takes the bite out,
  • winds down,
  • took the edge off,
  • de escalates,
  • slacking up,
  • takes sting out,
  • de grade,
  • de-grading,
  • de-grade,
  • dieing down,
  • de-escalates,
  • takes bite out,
  • taking bite out,
  • slacked up,
  • takes the edge off.

  • limit (verb)

  • pre-scribing,
  • de-limits,
  • de-fines,
  • kept lid on,
  • de limit,
  • keeping lid on,
  • de fines,
  • draw line,
  • de-fine,
  • de limiting,
  • de limits,
  • de fine,
  • pre-scribe,
  • keeping the lid on,
  • kept the lid on,
  • keeps the lid on,
  • de-limiting,
  • de fining,
  • pre scribe,
  • de-fining,
  • pre-scribes,
  • keeps lid on,
  • de-limit,
  • pre scribing.

  • localize (verb)

  • stopped from spreading,
  • stopt from spreading,
  • stopping from spreading,
  • stops from spreading.

  • narrow (verb)

  • slenderize.

  • reduce, simplify (verb)

  • diminish,
  • circumscribe.

  • restrict (verb)

  • shutting in,
  • demarks,
  • demarked,
  • holds down,
  • pinned down,
  • pre-limits,
  • pre limited,
  • holding down,
  • pre limits,
  • kept within limits,
  • puts ice,
  • in-closes,
  • in-close,
  • keeping within bounds,
  • sur rounded,
  • keeping within limits,
  • kept within bounds,
  • demarking,
  • in closes,
  • hanging up,
  • de-mark,
  • pre limiting,
  • prelimits,
  • de-marks,
  • de mark,
  • pre-limiting,
  • sur-rounding,
  • putting on ice,
  • sending up,
  • in close,
  • de-marking,
  • puts on ice,
  • prelimiting,
  • re-strict,
  • pre-limit,
  • sur-rounded,
  • putting ice,
  • in-closed,
  • hanged up,
  • put ice,
  • keeps within limits,
  • pre-limited,
  • cools down,
  • in closed,
  • in closing,
  • re strict,
  • pre limit,
  • keeps within bounds,
  • de marking,
  • sur rounding,
  • prelimited,
  • de-marked,
  • de marked,
  • in-closing,
  • de marks,
  • shuts in.

  • shrink (verb)

  • wastes away,
  • growing smaller,
  • fell short,
  • falls short,
  • grew smaller,
  • grows smaller.

  • taper/taper off (verb)

  • dying out,
  • came point,
  • dies away,
  • comes to point,
  • coming point,
  • came a point,
  • comes a point,
  • come a point,
  • coming to a point,
  • come to point,
  • dieing away,
  • coming a point,
  • coming to point,
  • came to point,
  • dieing out,
  • come point,
  • comes to a point,
  • comes point,
  • dying away,
  • died away,
  • awaying,
  • came to a point,
  • dies out,
  • thinned out,
  • thins out.

  • tighten (verb)

  • rigidifies.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rigid,
  • insular,
  • conservative,
  • conventional.
  •
  • confining,
  • across.
  •
  • snug,
  • flare,
  • collapse,
  • crowded.

  • contract

  • falls away,
  • grow less,
  • wrinkle,
  • Waned,
  • fall away,
  • grows less,
  • lose,
  • falling away,
  • drew in,
  • recede,
  • become smaller,
  • draw in,
  • became smaller.

  • directional

  • one-way.

  • fine

  • capillary.

  • hazardous

  • hairbreadth.

  • lessen

  • take the bite out,
  • deescalated,
  • take sting out,
  • Minified,
  • minify,
  • Downs,
  • winding down,
  • soft pedal,
  • wind down,
  • dies down,
  • Minifying,
  • take the edge off,
  • slowed down,
  • downed,
  • deescalating,
  • take the sting out,
  • slow down,
  • died down,
  • slack up,
  • lessening,
  • deescalate,
  • de-escalate,
  • roll back,
  • dying down,
  • downing,
  • die down.

  • limit

  • keep lid on,
  • keep the lid on,
  • limits,
  • delimitates,
  • delimitated,
  • delimitating,
  • hem in,
  • rationed,
  • rationing,
  • delimitate.

  • localize

  • stop from spreading.

  • Other relevant words:

  • put in nutshell,
  • zero in,
  • make brief,
  • prevent publication,
  • embodies,
  • get to the meat,
  • died out,
  • corking,
  • Conglomerating,
  • put on ice,
  • force into space,
  • tapers,
  • draw together,
  • cool down,
  • Squashing,
  • tensed,
  • oversees,
  • boil down,
  • revile,
  • Massing,
  • cleans up,
  • pinning down,
  • demark,
  • withhold,
  • strangulate,
  • shut in,
  • zeroed in,
  • get to meat,
  • forgathers,
  • pressed together,
  • focalizes,
  • syncopate,
  • die out,
  • Astringing,
  • agglomerated,
  • Exscind,
  • limit,
  • press together,
  • forgathered,
  • supervise communications,
  • thinning out,
  • thin out,
  • astringe,
  • telescopes,
  • tenses,
  • censor,
  • tighten,
  • Wedging,
  • blue pencil,
  • Agglomerating,
  • come to a point,
  • restrict,
  • send up,
  • OUTS,
  • strangulating,
  • cooled down,
  • wasted away,
  • aways,
  • corked,
  • put the lid on,
  • Prelimit,
  • falling short,
  • suppress,
  • snip,
  • scissor out,
  • compress,
  • Inclosed,
  • syncopated,
  • cleaned up,
  • Conglomerated,
  • Telescoping,
  • shrink,
  • held down,
  • taper off,
  • outed,
  • incloses,
  • shrinking,
  • pins down,
  • put lid on,
  • strangulates,
  • blue-pencils,
  • telescoped,
  • sends up,
  • fall short,
  • heap up,
  • die away,
  • bleeping,
  • Strangulated,
  • bleeps,
  • contract,
  • Focalizing,
  • blue-penciling,
  • concentrate,
  • hang up,
  • localize,
  • waste away,
  • wedge,
  • heaping up,
  • boils down,
  • bleep,
  • drawing together,
  • reviled,
  • focalize,
  • keep within bounds,
  • densen,
  • Inclosing,
  • telescope,
  • bleeped,
  • Focalized,
  • tapers off,
  • sent up,
  • wedged,
  • cooling down,
  • refuse transmission,
  • grow smaller,
  • keep within limits,
  • constrict,
  • forgathering,
  • withholds,
  • drop the iron curtain,
  • squash,
  • lessen,
  • clean up,
  • forgather,
  • Overseeing,
  • pin down,
  • densify,
  • inclose,
  • wasting away,
  • hold down,
  • blue-pencil,
  • tensing.

  • overnice

  • prudish.

  • stubborn

  • wrongheaded.

  • tighten

  • rigidified,
  • toughen,
  • rigidify,
  • rigidifying.

How to use «Narrow» in context?

The word «narrow» can have a variety of meanings, but often refers to someone or something that is not wide-ranging or complete. In this context, «narrow» can be used to describe something that is focused or specific. For example, a particular area of study or topic might be considered narrow if it is limited to a particular field of knowledge. Narrow can also be used to describe something that is not educated or well-rounded. For example, a person who is uneducated or not well-versed in many areas might be considered narrow-minded.

Paraphrases for Narrow:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    restricted.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    narrow-minded.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    bigoted, closer, closest, congested, constrained, constraining, constrictive, diminished, egoistic, egotistical, finite, illiberal, intimate, little, low, meagre, minimal, minor, miserly, modest, one-sided, petty, restrained, rigorous, scant, scarce, self-serving, selfish, shallow, simplistic, slender, slight, specific, strict, strictly, stringent, strong, tiny, weak.
  • Proper noun, singular
    less.
  • Verb, base form
    circumscribe, closing, confine, constrain, constrict, curb, curtail, delimit, delineate, diminish, eliminate, fill, refine, restrain, Bridging, Eliminating, downsize.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    circumscribed, cramped, myopic, parochial, reductionist, reductive, restrictive, rigid, shortsighted, slim, small, small-minded, blinkered, short-sighted.
  • Verb, base form
    alleviate, shorten, tighten.

Homophones for Narrow:

• NRA, nearer, nauru, nero, NRO, noria, newari, nowhere, NARA, nary, nunnery, namur, no more, niner, namer, naira, norway, nmr, near, nonhairy, nehru, New Year, ne’er.

Hypernym for Narrow:

• v.

  • change
    taper off, bottleneck.

Hyponym for Narrow:

• n.

  • object
    strait, sound.

• v.

  • change
    change.

Omophagic

Synonyms:

herbivorous,
omnivorous.

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