Narrow

Definition: Narrow

Narrow

Adjective

1. Not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page".

2. Limited in size or scope; "the narrow sense of a word".

3. Lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions".

4. Very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape".

5. Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report".

Noun

1. A narrow strait connecting two bodies of water.

Verb

1. Make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed".

2. Define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game".

3. Become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers".

4. Become tight or or as if tight; "Her throat constricted".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "narrow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Narrow

Beginning

Noun: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; (precursor); alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure.

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Escape

N.escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion; (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity.

Inquiry

Strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry; narrow search, strict search; study; (consideration).

Interment

Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence.

Misjudgment

One-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry; (obstinacy); odium theologicum; pedantry; hypercriticism.

Narrowness Thinness

Verb: be narrow; Adjective: narrow, taper, contract; render narrow; adj; waste away.

Adjective: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like; (filament); finespun, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded; (expand; ); slender as a thread.

Poverty

Bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity.

Qualification

Verb: qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper.

Crosswords: Narrow

Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

Looks like you have to narrow it down (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini)

Only a man whose heart is pure can wield the sacred Adjanti Dagger; and only a man whose ass is narrow can make it down these steps (The Golden Child; writing credit: Dennis Feldman)

It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

A fat man, trying to squeeze through a narrow chimney, and I taunt him with Oreos and whole milk (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

We weren't so straight and narrow (Twist Of Fate; performing artist: Olivia Newton-John)

The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient lettuce (Babelogue; performing artist: Patti Smith)

Narrow streets of cobblestone, (The Sound Of Silence; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

And to hell with your narrow mind (Free To Decide; performing artist: The Cranberries)

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. (references; author: unknown)

The Narrow Margin (1952)

Buster's Narrow Escape (1926)

The Narrow Street (1925)

Freddy's Narrow Escape (1916)

The Narrow Path (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Narrow Woven Fabrics and Narrow Fabrics Consisting of Warp without Weft Assembled by Means of an Adhesive: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (reference)

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Periodicals

• 7 + Narrow Gauger (reference)

• Narrow Fabric & Braiding Industry (reference)

• Label & Narrow Web Industry (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Narrow Margin (reference)

• Narrow Margin/Colorized (reference)

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Music

• Narrow Mouth Jar (reference)

• Narrow Road (reference)

• The Narrow Scope of Things (reference)

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High Tech

• HAKUBA USA INC NCSN-15 Narrow Neoprene Camera Strap (reference)

• Okidata Ml320 Turbo 9-Pin 290CPS Narrow Printer (reference)

• Panasonic Kx-P3200 9-Pin 330Cps Narrow Par/Ser Epson Fx850 IBM Proprntr (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Pyrex Narrow Spatula (reference)

• Ultimate Edge 5-Inch Narrow Diamond Sharpening Steel (reference)

• WMF Profi Plus 11-Inch Stainless Steel Narrow Lifter (reference)

• Senco SLS20 Narrow Crown Stapler with Case (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The head is attached to the thorax by a very narrow neck. The thorax appears unsegmented, but like the head, it is actually composed of several fused segments. Credit: CDC.

Hutchinson’s Teeth is a congenital anomaly in which the permanent incisor teeth are narrow and notched. Note the notched edges and "screwdriver" shape of the central incisors. Credit: CDC.

This narrow, deep view of the universe reveals a plethora of faint galaxies, as seen in ... Credit: NASA.

Astronomers have seen the exhaust products of black hole "engines": narrow beams of material ... Credit: NASA.

I hate these narrow ridges Survey crew from ship WESTDAHL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Point Sur, connected to the mainland by a narrow sand beach. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo #1.Cross-section of first spine of dorsal fin of young bluefin tuna showing annual growth rings. These rings are similar to tree growth rings. The wide (brown) areas represent summer growth during periods of high food intake. The narrow (white) bands represent periods of less fast growth during the winter when the fish's metabolism slows. Credit: Fisheries.

Callinectes sapidus. 3. Ventral surface of a virgin female, showing the narrow triangular abdomen. 4. Ventral surface of an ovigerous female, showing the broad, semicircular abdomen. In: "Life History of the Blue Crab (Callinectes Sapidus" by W. P. Hay. Report of the Bureau of Fisheries 1904. P. 413, Plate II. Credit: Fisheries.

The Finney Creek restoration project placed over 750 logs into more than 80 log jams in upper Finney Creek. the logs helped to trap gravel size sediments behind the jams and create a more narrow and deeper creek. This resulted in lowering water temperatures to provide more favorable spawning conditions. Finney Creek once provided habitat for all salmon species except sockeye. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A view from the Mobile Canal of a back hoe placing rock at the narrow beach. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The equality of a simple poor way of living, confining their desires within the narrow bounds of each man's small property, made few controversies, and so no need of many laws to decide them, or variety of officers to superintend the process, or look after the execution of justice, where there were but few trespasses, and few offenders. (Second Treatise of Government)

It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. (reference)

The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. (reference)

We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of strength. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1936)

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FROGGY has had a very narrow escape of not being named at all

The hospital was a low, narrow, one story building with a small garden

But when he had passed the old servant on the landing and was again in the low narrow dark corridor he began to walk faster and faster

They came to a long narrow ditch with sections of concrete pipe lying beside it.

I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out.

Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Your airways narrow or become smaller. (references)

The esophagus may be too narrow, causing food to stick. (references)

Narrow or clogged blood vessels also raise blood pressure. (references)

Business

The judge's ruling was based on fairly narrow legal points. (references)

In 2000, Korea’s trade surplus is expected to narrow further to about $10.8 billion. (references)

European trucks are constructed for narrow roads with hills, with different transmissions. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Instead, they must travel along a narrow walkway almost a mile long. (references)

Ecuador

In addition, most elements of the media are influenced by economic considerations and tend to reflect the narrow, regional interests of their owners. (references)

Netherlands

The prevailing decisions have held that the wearing of headscarves may be banned only on narrow grounds, such as a concern for safety or inconsistency with an official government uniform. (references)

Economic History

Suriname

Most Surinamers live in the narrow, northern coastal plain. (references)

Philippines

Terrain: Islands, 65% mountainous, with narrow coastal lowlands. (references)

Russia

The GOR's strategy is to substantially expand the current narrow tax base. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

In 1999, prior to the Commission's creation, opposition leaders and NGO's, including the Bar Council, criticized the definition of human rights as too narrow. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

For example, the Government frequently used the judicial process to eliminate key political opposition leaders from participation in elections and narrow the range of choice for voters. (references)

Minorities

Seychelles

The education gap between Creoles and citizens of white or Asian origin continued to narrow. (references)

Political Economy

Mexico

In the 500-member Chamber of Deputies, the PRI holds a narrow plurality over the PAN. (references)

JAMAICA

Scarce resources and a narrow legal definition of the term "factory" combine to limit inspections. (references)

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Nonetheless, the trade surplus continues to narrow, as exports have decreased faster than imports. (references)

Political Rights

Lithuania

In 1998 independent candidate Valdas Adamkus was elected President by a narrow margin. (references)

Bangladesh

Parliament's effectiveness as a deliberative body is undermined further by the country's relatively narrow partisan politics. (references)

Suriname

Most of the country's political activity takes place in the capital and a narrow belt running east and west of it along the coast. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

The reduction in reserve requirements has helped narrow the spread. (references)

Guinea

The banking system has a narrow base, is very fragile and is unable to meet the development needs of the private sector. (references)

Philippines

Labels are not mandatory for special items made of textiles, such as narrow fabrics, artificial flowers, purses, doilies, bags, hats, belts, gloves, and other garments or clothing accessories not specified above. (references)

Travel

Greece

The remainder consists of narrow gauge tracks used for national routes. (references)

Norway

Domestic Travel Information: Because of the mountainous terrain, most roads are narrow and winding. (references)

Ghana

Some roads on the outskirts are relatively narrow and poorly maintained, with rather daunting open gutters. (references)

Women

France

Women's rights groups have criticized the scope of the law as narrow and the fines and compensatory damages as often modest. (references)

Pakistan

Human rights monitors and women's groups believe that a narrow interpretation of Shari'a has had a harmful effect on the rights of women and minorities, as it reinforces popular attitudes and perceptions and contributes to an atmosphere in which discriminatory treatment of women and non-Muslims is accepted more readily. (references)

Worker Rights

Nigeria

UNICEF reported that despite the narrow focus on young girls, the program only began to address the problem during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Circumcision of a narrow place

Expressions using "narrow": a narrow street ♦ after a narrow examination ♦ be on the straight and narrow ♦ become narrow ♦ have a narrow escape ♦ have a narrow squeak ♦ he had a narrow escape ♦ in narrow circumstances ♦ in the narrow sense ♦ narrow band frequency modulation ♦ narrow beam ♦ narrow beech fern ♦ narrow boat ♦ narrow casting ♦ narrow circumstances ♦ narrow coverage ♦ narrow down ♦ narrow escape ♦ narrow face ♦ narrow flight of stairs ♦ narrow gauge ♦ narrow goldenrod ♦ narrow goods ♦ narrow hips ♦ narrow inlet ♦ narrow majority ♦ narrow mind ♦ narrow minded ♦ narrow mindedness ♦ narrow off ♦ narrow or long pennant ♦ narrow outlook ♦ narrow part ♦ narrow pass ♦ narrow path ♦ narrow pennant ♦ narrow person ♦ narrow place ♦ narrow search ♦ narrow soul ♦ narrow specialist ♦ narrow squeak ♦ narrow street ♦ narrow wale ♦ network of narrow streets ♦ render narrow ♦ straight and narrow ♦ strait and narrow ♦ very narrow ♦ win by a narrow margin in. Additional references.

Beginning with "narrow": narrow-angle, narrow-backed, narrow-band, narrow-banded, narrow-based, narrow-beam, narrow-boats, narrow-bodied, narrow-brimmed, narrow-chested, narrow-diameter, narrow-eyed, narrow-faced, narrow-fisted, narrow-focus, narrow-front, narrow-fronted, narrow-gauge, narrow-gauge lighting system, narrow-gauge railroad, narrow-gauge railway, narrow-go-wides, narrow-headed, narrow-hipped, narrow-ish, narrow-leaf cattail, narrow-leaf penstemon, narrow-leaved, narrow-leaved bottletree, narrow-leaved everlasting pea, narrow-leaved flame flower, narrow-leaved plantain, narrow-leaved reedmace, narrow-leaved spleenwort, narrow-leaved strap fern, narrow-leaved water plantain, narrow-leaved white-topped aster, narrow-leg, Narrow-minded, narrow-mindedly, narrow-mindednens, Narrow-mindedness, narrow-money, narrow-mouthed, narrow-necked, narrow-ranging, narrow-ringed, narrow-room, narrow-ruled, narrow-set, narrow-shouldered, narrow-sided, narrow-sighted, narrow-souled, narrow-stetch, narrow-stile, narrow-straight, narrow-targeted, narrow-thighed, narrow-thinking, narrow-toed, narrow-tubed, narrow-vision, narrow-winged.

Ending with "narrow": still-narrow, too-narrow.

Afrikaans

bekrompe (close, cramped). (various references)

Albanian

ngushtoj (constrict, cramp, slenderize, straiten, tighten), ngushtohem (be contracted, shrink, tighten), ngushticë (channel, defile, neck, pinch, plight, sound, Strait, want), zemërngushtë (mean, petty, ungenerous), vend i ngushtë, rrugicë (alley, back street, Lane, side street, wynd), pjesë e ngushtë (waist), pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), minimal (bare, basic, minimal, minimum), kufizoj (circumscribe, confine, enclose, hedge in, hem, inclose, limit, localise, localize, restrain, restrict, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate, tie, truncate), koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, picayune, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee), i ngushtë (acute, bigheaded, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, intimate, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, poky, provincial, small, small minded, Strait, tight), i kufizuar (close, insular, limitary, limited, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, parochial, qualified, restrained, restricted, Strait, straitened, suburban), i hollësishëm (categorical, circumstantial, comprehensive, detail, detailed, elaborate, explicit, minute, particular, play-by-play). (various references)

Arabic 

ضيق (limited, tight, worry), ‏مضيق (bottleneck, gorge, isthmus, panhandle, sound, strait), ‏حدد (adjust, allocate, appoint, assess, assign, be specified, calibrate, center, centre, condition, constrict, define, determine, fix, itemize, limit, line, locate, mark, name, pin, pinpoint, prefix, prescribe, qualify, set, shoe, type), ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness). (various references)

Basque

hestu (strait, tight). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тесен (choky, close, cramped, incommodious, jimp, parochial, pokey, scrimpy, skimpy, strict, tight, tight-fitted), притварям, правя тесногръд, пролив (channel), пролом (breach, gap, gorge, ravine), егоцентричен (egocentric, self centered, self centred), затворен (close, closed, confined, imprisoned, jailed, jugged, landlocked, locked, mediterranean, pent, pent up, recluse, reticent, shut in), ограничавам (bound, chasten, circumscribe, constrain, contract, focalize, hem, immure, intern, limit, localise, localize, peg down, pinch, qualify, reduce, repress, restrict, specialize, straiten, tie down, trammel), ограничен (close, closed, confined, contracted, finite, hidebound, illiberal, insular, limitary, limited, mean, narrow minded, one track, open, parochial, pot-bound, restricted, scanty, small minded, sparing, strict, stringent, suburban), подробен (circumstantial, close, comprehensive, depth, detailed, disquisitional, elaborate, explicit, nice, particular), с малка разлика, строг (astringent, austere, censorious, close, firm, grim, hard, hard and fast, hard-grained, hardhanded, ironclad, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, sinewy, stern, straitlaced, strict, stringent, taut, unaffable, uncharitable), тесен канал, теснина (narrowness), тесногръд (doctrinaire, illiberal, insular, narrow minded, one track, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, single track, straitlaced, stuffy), точен (accurate, careful, correct, exact, express, faithful, just, literal, minute, near, perfect, pinpoint, precise, precision, proper, punctual, refined, right, rigorous, scientific, sensitive, straight, strict, true, unerring, veracious, well-directed), твърде малък, щателен (minute, painstaking, scrupulous, searching, severe), свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous), свивам за очи, стеснявам (neck, restrict, straiten), клисура (couloir, defile, draw, gap, gorge, neck, notch, opening, ravine). (various references)

Catalan

estret. (various references)

Chinese 

隘 (a pass or defile, confined, in distress, inscribed motto), 逼仄 (cramped), 跼 (cramped), 褊 (urgent), 窄 , 笮 (board under tiles on roof), 狭窄 (Petty, stenosis), 狹窄 , 狹 (narrow-minded), 戔 (small), 侷 , 小氣 (petty, stingy). (various references)

Czech

úzký (close, cramped, thin, tight). (various references)

Danish

smal (condensed, condensed type), tæt (concentrated, dense, thick). (various references)

Dutch

smal, nauw (close, cramped, strait, tight), krap (close, cramped), eng (close, cramped, eerie, grisly, gruesome, macabre), bekrompen. (various references)

Esperanto

mallarĝa. (various references)

Farsi 

محدودکردن (Bound, Compass, Confine, Cramp, Curb, Dam, Gag, Impale, Limit, Qualify, Quantify, Restrict, Stint, Straiten, Terminate), محدود (Bound, Determinate, Moderate, Parochial), کم پهنا, کوته فکر (Dogmatic, Lowminded, Provincial, Prude), تنگ (Close, Cruse, Decanter, Disgrace, Scarce, Shoal, Strait), درازوباریک (Lanky, Weedy), باریک کردن (Straiten), باریک (Capillary, Linear, Slat, Slender, Slice, Strait, Tender, Tenuous, Thin). (various references)

Finnish

kapea. (various references)

French

étroit. (various references)

Frisian

nau, smel, ing. (various references)

German

schmal (lean, meager, meagre, narrowly, slender, slim, small, strait, thin), eng (close, close fitting, closely, confined, cramped, intimate, limited, narrowly, poky, reduced, restricted, snug, straitened, tight, tightly). (various references)

Greek 

στενόσ (close, near, nigh, parochial), στενός (intimate, tight), στενεύω (constrict, contract, straiten), περιωρισμένοσ (limited), περιορισμένησ αντίληψησ (a bit thick), λεπτός (delicate, flimsy, slender, subtle, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוגבל (confined, finite, handicapped, limited, stringent), מצומצם (accurate, bare, contracted, limited, reduced, scanty, scarce, skimpy), לכוץ (abridge), להצר (constrict, straiten), לצמצם (contract, diminish, limit, minimize, reduce, restrict, scant, stunt), אץ (hastening, hurrying), דחוק (hard up, scarce, strained, tight), צר (enemy, foe). (various references)

Hungarian

keskeny (extenuate, Strait). (various references)

Icelandic

krappur, þröngur (close, cramped). (various references)

Indonesian

menyempitkan (constrict), menciutkan (reduce), memperciut, genting (critical, frayed, precarious, tense). (various references)

Irish

caol (slender). (various references)

Italian

stretto (channel, clenched, close, exact, fast, firm, near, packed, precise, sharp, sound, strait, straits, strict, tight). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

窮屈 (constrained, formal, rigid, stiff, tight, uneasy), 狭い (confined, small). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうくつ (constrained, formal, rigid, stiff, tight, uneasy), きょうしょう (agreement, brave general, charming smile, cramped, flying race, negotiation, small-sized, strong general), きょうあい, ほそみ (slender, thin), せまい (confined, donating rice, rice given in charity, small), あぶなっかしい (close, critical, dangerous, grave, limping, uncertain, unreliable, watch out), あぶない (close, critical, dangerous, grave, limping, uncertain, unreliable, watch out!), あやうい (close, critical, dangerous, grave, limping, uncertain, unreliable, watch out!), てぜま (cramped, small). (various references)

Korean 

소폭. (various references)

Malay

sempit. (various references)

Manx

keyllaghey (narrow down, narrowing), keyl (attenuated, drawn out, fine, gracile, hairline, lanky, lean, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, tapered, thin, watery, watery of soup, weak, weak as solution, willowy), coonaghey, coon (confined, narrow-minded, poky, strait, tight-fitting), beg (dwarf, few, model, poky, quiet, short, slight, small). (various references)

Norwegian

trang (close, cramped), smal. (various references)

Occitan

estrech (strait, tight). (various references)

Pig Latin

arrownay.(various references)

Portuguese

estreito (close, cramped, gat, gullet, hidebound, one-track, parochial, poky, strait, straits, thin, tight). (various references)

Romanian

restrânge (bound, confine, constrain, cut, diminish, drop, limit, localise, localize, narrow down, restrict, restriction, retrench), îngusta (narrow down, shrink, straiten, taper, tighten), amãnunţit (amply, circumstantial, detail, detailed, elaborate, minute, particular, particularly, searching, thorough), exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, correct, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, just so, perfect, precise, precisely, proper, punctual, punctually, regular, right, rigorous, scholarly, sharp, slick, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it), limitat (close, conditioned, finite, hidebound, limitary, limited, narrow minded, one sided, parochial, restricted, scant, scanty), mãrginit (dense, finite, illiberal, limited, little, local, low-minded, narrow minded, obtuse, parochially, restricted, small), mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, petty, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), îngust (illiberal, little, local, low-minded, narrow minded, parochial, parochially, purblind, slender, slim, thin, tight), precis (accurate, accurately, certain, clean-cut, clockwork, dead, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, distinct, due, even, exact, exactly, flat, just, literal, positive, precise, regular, sharp, sound, specifically, straight, strict, truly, unambiguous), strict (exact, rigid, rigidly, severe, severely, strict, strictly, stringent), restrâns (close, limitary, limited, restricted), se îngusta (straiten), se strâmta (shrink, shrink up), sever (austere, close, dour, drastic, exacting, firm, frowning, grim, hard, harsh, keen, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), strâmt (small, tight), strâmta (diminish, narrow down, straiten), strâmtoare (awkwardness, bottle-neck, clutch, constraint, extremity, fix, gorge, gullet, gut, jam, loss, narrows, necessity, scrape, sound, stew, Strait, trouble, unpleasant, want), parte îngustã. (various references)

Russian 

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, mingy, miserly, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous), ограничивать (bound, circumscribe, confine, constrain, delimit, determine, enclose, hedge, inclose, limit, pinch, qualify, restrain, restrict, scanting, scrimp, set a limit, set bounds, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate), ограниченный (blinkered, borne, bound, clannish, confined, cramped, finite, groovy, handicapped, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, limitary, limited, limited to, meager, meagre, narrow gauge, narrow minded, narrow-minded, one track, parochial, qualified, restrained, restricted, scant, scanty, small minded, small-scale), теснина (defile), теснить (beset, press), тесный (close, close-fitting, congested, incapacious, incommodious, tight, two-by-twice), подробный (circumstantial, detailed, minute, particular, prolix), трудный (arduous, baffling, difficult, formidable, hard, labored, laborious, laboured, man-sized, painful, toilful, toilsome, trying, unmanageable), суживаться, узость (narrowness, parochialism), узкий (confined, hidebound, incapacious, insular, narrow-minded, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, slimline, suburban), узкий проход (throat), узкая часть пролива, суживать, суживать узкий, тщательный (careful, nice, painstaking, particular, rigorous, scrupulous, searching, thorough, thoroughgoing). (various references)

Scottish

cumhang (strait), caol (lean, slender). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzan, uzak (strait), tesnac (bay, defile, gorge, tight corner), tesan (cheek by jowl, close, cramped, strait, tight), taman (dark, dim, just, just right, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, near, opaque, tenebrous), suziti (constrict, take in, tear). (various references)

Spanish

estrecho (austere, channel, close, close fitting, cramped, fix, gut, intimate, jam, near, short, small, sound, Strait, strict, tight), angosto. (various references)

Sranan

naw. (various references)

Swahili

-embamba (slender, slim), embamba (slender, slim). (various references)

Swedish

smal (close, cramped, gaunt, lean, slender, slim, tenuous, thin), trång (close, cramped, crowded, incapacious, incommodious, poky, skimpy, tight), snäv (curt, tight). (various references)

Tagalog

makítid. (various references)

Thai

แคบ, ทำให้แคบลง. (various references)

Turkish

dar (acute, clinging, close fitting, close-bodied, constricted, exiguous, narrowly, parochial, poky, restrained, snug, Strait, stringent, tight). (various references)

Turkmen 

dar, atяuzli. (various references)

Ukrainian

скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), скрутний (awkward, baffling, difficult, embarrassing, necessitous, onerous, spiny), ретельний (affectionate, assiduous, careful, diligent, dutiful, elaborate, meticulous, nice, observant, prompt, rigorous, severe, thorough), тіснити противника, тісний (cramp, pinched, pokey, poky, tight), тіснина, вузьке місце, вузька протока (belt, neck), вузький (confined, cramp, limited, one track, one-ideaed, petty, small minded, stuffy, suburban), вуличка, обмежувати (abridge, astrict, bail, bound, circumscribe, confine, cramp, enclose, limit, pinch on, restrain, restrict, stint, straiten, terminate), обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate), звужуватися, звужувати (contract, specialize, straiten, taper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhỏ nhen kỹ lưỡng, hẹp (strait), eo hẹp hẹp hòi, chật hẹp (cramp, incapacious, narrowly, scanty). (various references)

Welsh

cyfyngu (confine, limit), cyfyng (confined, difficult), culhau (grow lean), cul (lean). (various references)

Yucatec

koom (brief, short). (various references)

stenos. (various references)

angustus. (various references)

nearo. (various references)

estreit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "narrow": narrowband, narrowcasting, narrowcastings, narrowed, narrower, narrowest, narrowing, narrowly, narrowness, narrownesses, narrows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Narrow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aarrow, Darrow, Nalrwu, Narbra, Nardo, nardoo, Narew, narod, Narodwe, narog, narow, narowe, narro, narrol, naru, Navroop, Nawroz, Norroy, parrow. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arrow, rowan.

-2 letters: orra, roan, roar, warn, worn.

-3 letters: awn, naw, nor, now, oar, ora, own, ran, raw, row, wan, war, won.

-4 letters: an, ar, aw, na, no, on, or, ow, wo.

+1 letter: narrows, warworn.

+2 letters: arrowing, careworn, forewarn, ironware, narrowed, narrower, narrowly.

+3 letters: drawnwork, farrowing, forewarns, frontward, harrowing, ironwares, marrowing, narrowest, narrowing, northward, overdrawn, warmonger, warrantor, waterworn.

+4 letters: brainpower, cankerworm, cordwainer, cornerways, drawnworks, forewarned, forwarding, frontwards, handbarrow, handworker, marrowbone, narrowband, narrowness, northwards, outwarring, pawnbroker, rowanberry, warmongers, warrantors, waterborne, waterfront, workaround, wraparound.

+5 letters: brainpowers, cankerworms, cordwainers, cordwainery, crowbarring, forewarning, forswearing, forwardness, frowardness, groundwater, handbarrows, handworkers, hardworking, marrowbones, overdrawing, overwarming, overwearing, pawnbrokers, snowboarder, waterfronts, weatherworn, workarounds, wraparounds.