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  1. adjective Of small or limited width, especially in comparison with length.
  2. adjective Limited in area or scope; cramped.
  3. adjective Lacking flexibility; rigid: narrow opinions.
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  • Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Hooker called her narrow, bigoted and headstrong, but the proceedings of the “people's convention” next day, which nominated Mrs. Woodhull for President, showed how suicidal it would have been to have had it under the auspices of the National Suffrage Association. —  The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, v1
  • In the mirror I saw her eyes narrow, her mouth tighten. —  Omni: Winter 1995
  • The haircut made his head look too long and narrow, as though it were a section removed from a totem. —  RemoteControl
  • Then he thought, Mistake Chapter   44 HE FOLLOWED MARTIN and Marcia Harris as they walked arm in arm through a dark, narrow, and very typical Venetian alleyway They entered a gateway into the Bauer Hotel. —  Patterson, James - [Alex Cross 12] - Cross
  • North into the greatest danger and the deepest emotional experience they had yet encountered together Chapter 22 Marshal Ney entered Viseu on September 18 after a laborious march over a stony, narrow, and precipitous track that had strung out the army into a dangerously thin line. —  Mary Balogh - Beyond the Sunrise
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broad ·  thin ·  empty ·  wooden ·  rocky ·  distant

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narrow:   narrower ·  narrowest ·  narrowed ·  narrowing ·  narrows
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English narwe, from Old English nearu.

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  1. from Middle English narow narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Anglo-Saxon nearu (nearw-) = Old Saxon naru, naro, narowo, narrow, = OFries. *naro (in deriv. nara, oppression) = Dutch naar, dismal, ghastly, frightful, sorrowful, depressed, = Middle Low German nare, narwe, Low German naar, dismal, ghastly, = Old High German *naru (*narw-), in deriv. narwa, narwo, Middle High German narwe, German narbe, a closed wound, a scar; cf. Icelandic njörva-sund, ‘narrow strait’ (applied to the Strait of Gibraltar); perhaps orig. with initial s, akin to snare. Certainly not connected with near.
  2. from Middle English narwe, from Anglo-Saxon nearwe, narrowly, from nearu, narrow: see narrow, a.
  3. from Middle English narowen, narwen, from Anglo-Saxon nearwian, nirwan, make narrow, become narrow, genearwian, make narrow, from nearu, narrow: see narrow, a.
 

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