narrow

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Synonyms: marrow, barrow, harrow, farrow, yarrow, arrow, jarrow, carrow, narro, darrow, garrow

Antonyms: marrow, barrow, harrow, farrow, yarrow, arrow, jarrow, carrow, narro, darrow, garrow

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Adjective

Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- a narrow hallway
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- a narrow interpretation
Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted.
- a narrow mind
- narrow views
Having a small margin or degree.
- a narrow escape
- The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
Limited as to means; straitened
- narrow circumstances
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
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.
Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- a narrow character; a narrow stream

A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
- the narrows of New York harbor

To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- We need to narrow the search.
To get narrower.
- The road narrows.
To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
- She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- to narrow an int variable to a short variable

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