Word Meanings - NARROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formed by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e and oo , etc., from ì and oo , etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 13. Note: Narrow

Additional info about word: NARROW

Formed by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e and oo , etc., from ì and oo , etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 13. Note: Narrow is not unfrequently prefixed to words, especially to participles and adjectives, forming compounds of obvious signification; as, narrow-bordered, narrow-brimmed, narrow-breasted, narrow-edged, narrow-faced, narrow-headed, narrow-leaved, narrow- pointed, narrow-souled, narrow-sphered, etc. Narrow gauge. See Note under Gauge, n., 6. (more info) 1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem. Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas. Shak. 2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world. Bp. Wilkins. 3. 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. Dryden. 4. Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances. 5. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. "A narrow understanding." Macaulay. 6. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish. A very narrow and stinted charity. Smalridge. 7. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact. But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NARROW)

• Attenuate
• Educe
• elongate
• reduce
• fine-drawn
• narrow
• contract
• diminish
• compress
• Circumscribed
• Limited
• restricted
• Close \adj Narrow
• limited
• condensed
• packed
• secret
• compressed
• solid
• firm
• compact
• reserved
• niggardly
• shut
• fast
• dense
• Confine
• Immure
• limit
• bound
• imprison
• circumscribe
• restrict
• enclose
• incarcerate
• bind
• Contract Abridge
• abbreviate
• lessen
• decrease
• retrench
• curtail
• form
• agree

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NARROW)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon
• Increase
• grow
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge

Related words: (words related to NARROW)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• INCARCERATE
  1. To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso 2. To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia , hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.