Narrow

//ˈnæɹ.əʊ//

Synonyms for "narrow" (483 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (97)

constrict limited minute narrowed slender specialize strait taper abate abbreviate abridge abstemious accented accurate acute adjust adjust to alter alveolar angustifoliate

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Adjective(1 words)

Verb(3 words)

constrict constringe contract

Strong matches (145)

copyright copyrighted correct cove cramp cramped creedbound creek critical crowded curtail deaf deaf to reason decrease defile definite delicate demanding demure denotative

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dental detailed determinate diminish discipline disciplined dissimilated distill distressed dorsal down to bedrock draw draw in draw the line draw together dwarfed dwarfish embarrassed estuary ethnocentric exact exacting exceptional excluding exclusive exclusory exigent exiguous exquisite fanatical feature feeling the pinch fine finical finicking finicky finite fiord firth fixed fjord flat focus follow frith front frugal fussy genteel glide glossal glottal go in go in for gulf gut guttural hairbreadth harbor hard hard up heavy hedge hedge about hem hem in hidebound high ill off ill-off illiberal impecunious impoverished in narrow circumstances in queer street in reduced circumstances in straitened circumstances inadmissible incapacious incommodious ineffectual inexorable inflexible insular intolerant intonated isthmian isthmic isthmus jejune keep from spreading keep within bounds knit labial labiodental labiovelar land-poor lateral lax lean leaven lenten lessen light limit lingual liquid little little minded little-minded localize loch low lucky major in marginal meager mean mean-minded mean-spirited mercenary meticulous

Adjective(2 words)

filamentous fine

Noun(1 words)

kyle

Related words (241)

mid mid victorian mid-victorian mingy minor in miserly mitigate moderate moderated modify modulate monophthongal mouth muted narrow gauge narrow minded narrow mouthed narrow-hearted narrow-minded narrow-souled

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narrow-spirited narrowing narrows nasal nasalized near near-sighted nearsighted neck nice niggard niggardly obdurate occlusive old-maidish on the edge open out of pocket overmodest oversimplify oxytone palatal palatalized palliate paltry parochial parsimonious particular partisan pass passage patent patented petty pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pin down pinched pinching pitch pitched poor poorly off posttonic precise precisianistic precisionistic preclusive prescribed prescriptive preventive priggish prim prohibitive proscribed provincial prudish pucker pucker up punctilious punctual puny purblind purify puritanical purse pursue quakerish qualified qualify reach reduce reduce to elements reduced refine refined register regulate regulate by religious restrain restrict restricted restrictive retroflex rigid rigorous road rounded sanctimonious scant scanty scrawny scrimp scrimpy scrupulous scrutinizing searching season seclusive sectarian segregative select selective selfish semivowel separative set set conditions set limits sharp short short of cash short of funds shorten shortsighted simplify skimp skimpy slight slim small small minded small-minded smug snape snobbish soft soften solidify sonant sound spare sparing spartan specialize in squeezed starvation stiff necked stiff-necked stingy stint stinted stopped straiten straitened straitlaced straits strangle strangulate straplike strapped streamline stressed strict strip down strong stuffy stunted subsistence subtle surd syllabic tapered tapering temper tense thick thin throat throaty tight tight-fisted tighten tonal tonic tough twangy unaccented uncatholic uncharitable ungenerous unliberal unmoneyed unnourishing unnutritious unprosperous unrounded unstressed velar victorian vocalic vocoid voiced voiceless vowel vowellike watered watery weak wide wrinkle xenophobic

Adjective(2 words)

minute narrow-minded

Verb(8 words)

nail down narrow down peg down pin down specialise specialize specify taper

Adjective(5 words)

slender slim strait thin tight

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

11 relation types

More general

8 entries

alter change determine small sound strait tighten vary

Antonyms

5 entries

broad thick wide widen

Synonyms

6 entries

constrict minute narrow minded pin down specialize taper

Related terms

2 entries

narrowly narrowness

derived

58 entries

go narrow narrow AI narrow artificial intelligence narrow bank narrow banking narrow boat narrow cloth narrow construction narrow down narrow escape narrow gauge narrow house narrow minded narrow mindedness narrow road narrow sea

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distinct from

3 entries

broad thick wide

has context

2 entries

knitting phonetics

is a

1 entries

strait

manner of

1 entries

change

related to

55 entries

adjective alley alleyway bigoted circumscribed close contract depth distance extent fit flexibility hallway lake latitude length

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similar

36 entries

bare careful close-minded closed-minded constricting constrictive dogmatic dogmatical illiberal intolerant limited marginal narrow mouthed

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Translations

293 translations across 143 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

smal adj (having small width)

Albanian

4 entries

i ngushtë adj (having small width)
shtrreit adj (having small width)
ngushtohet verb (to get narrower)
ngushtoj verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

στενός adj (having small width)

Arabic

4 entries

ضيق adj (having small width)
ضَيِّق adj (having small width)
ضَيِّق adj (having small width)
مضيق adj (having small width)

Armenian

3 entries

նեղ adj (having small width)
նեղանալ verb (to get narrower)
նեղացնել verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Aromanian

3 entries

ngustu adj (having small width)
strãmtu adj (having small width)
ngustedz verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Asturian

3 entries

anguiláu adj (having small width)
apertáu adj (having small width)
estrechu adj (having small width)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

dar adj (having small width)

Bashkir

3 entries

тар adj (having small width)
тарайтыу verb (to reduce in width or extent)
тарайыу verb (to get narrower)

Basque

1 entries

estu adj (having small width)

Belarusian

1 entries

ву́зкі adj (having small width)

Bikol Central

1 entries

hayapit adj (having small width)

Bulgarian

4 entries

ограничен adj (of little extent; very limited; circumscribed)
подробен adj (scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact)
те́сен adj (having small width)
щателен adj (scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact)

Burmese

2 entries

ကျဉ်း adj (having small width)
ကျဉ်းကျပ် adj (having small width)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries

узкый adj (having small width)

Catalan

4 entries

angost adj (having small width)
estret adj (having small width)
estreta adj (having small width)
estrènyer verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

تەسک adj (having small width)

Chechen

1 entries

готта adj (having small width)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᏯᏙᏟ adj (having small width)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

窄 adj (having small width)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

窄 adj (having small width)

Church Slavic

2 entries

ѫзъкъ adj (having small width)
ⱘⰸⱏⰽⱏ adj (having small width)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

tar adj (having small width)

Czech

1 entries

úzký adj (having small width)

Danish

4 entries

smal adj (having small width)
snæver adj (having small width)
tæt adj (having small width)
snævres verb (to get narrower)

Dutch

2 entries

nauw adj (having small width)
smal adj (having small width)

Eastern Mari

1 entries

аҥысыр adj (having small width)

Egyptian

1 entries

g-A-w-V32:nDs verb (to get narrower)

Erzya

2 entries

теине adj (having small width)
тея adj (having small width)

Eshtehardi

1 entries

تینگ adj (having small width)

Esperanto

3 entries

mallarĝa adj (having small width)
malvasta adj (having small width)
streta adj (having small width)

Estonian

1 entries

kitsas adj (having small width)

Ewe

1 entries

xáxɛ́ adj (having small width)

Farefare

1 entries

mika adj (having small width)

Faroese

4 entries

smalur adj (having small width)
snævur adj (having small width)
trongligur adj (having small width)
trongur adj (having small width)

Finnish

4 entries

ahdas adj (having small width)
ahdas adj (of little extent; very limited; circumscribed)
ahdas adj (restrictive; without flexibility or latitude)
ahdas adj (contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.)

French

3 entries

étroit adj (having small width)
réduire verb (to reduce in width or extent)
rétrécir verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Friulian

1 entries

stret adj (having small width)

Gagauz

2 entries

dar adj (having small width)
дар adj (having small width)

Galician

3 entries

angosto adj (having small width)
apertado adj (having small width)
estreito adj (having small width)

Georgian

2 entries

ვიწრო adj (having small width)
შევიწროება verb (to reduce in width or extent)

German

4 entries

arm adj (limited as to means; straitened; pinching)
begrenzt adj (having small width)
beschränkt adj (restrictive; without flexibility or latitude)
bigott adj (contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌿𐍃 adj (having small width)

Greek

3 entries

στενός adj (having small width)
στενεύω verb (to reduce in width or extent)
στενεύω verb (to get narrower)

Haitian Creole

2 entries

jennen adj (having small width)
jis adj (having small width)

Hebrew

1 entries

צר adj (having small width)

Higaonon

1 entries

malig-ut adj (having small width)

Hindi

1 entries

तंग adj (having small width)

Hungarian

4 entries

keskeny adj (having small width)
szűk adj (having small width)
szűkít verb (to reduce in width or extent)
szűkül verb (to get narrower)

Icelandic

1 entries

þröngur adj (having small width)

Indonesian

1 entries

sempit adj (having small width)

Ingrian

1 entries

pätärä adj (having a small margin or degree)

Ingush

1 entries

готта adj (having small width)

Irish

2 entries

caol adj (having small width)
cúng adj (having small width)

Istriot

1 entries

strento adj (having small width)

Italian

2 entries

angusto adj (having small width)
stretto adj (having small width)

Japanese

1 entries

狭い adj (having small width)

Javanese

1 entries

sesak adj (having small width)

Kanakanabu

1 entries

'anuupica adj (having small width)

Karachay-Balkar

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Karaim

1 entries

tar adj (having small width)

Kashubian

1 entries

wąsczi adj (having small width)

Kazakh

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Khakas

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Khmer

1 entries

ចង្អៀត adj (having small width)

Korean

2 entries

좁다 adj (having small width)
좁은 adj (having small width)

Kumyk

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Lao

1 entries

ຄັບ adj (having small width)

Latgalian

1 entries

šaurs adj (having small width)

Latin

3 entries

angustus adj (having small width)
artus adj (having small width)
angustō verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Latvian

1 entries

šaurs adj (having small width)

Limburgish

2 entries

nej adj (having small width)
smaal adj (having small width)

Lithuanian

1 entries

siauras adj (having small width)

Lower Sorbian

2 entries

huzki adj (having small width)
wuski adj (having small width)

Macedonian

1 entries

тесен adj (having small width)

Maguindanao

1 entries

magaget adj (having small width)

Malay

1 entries

sempit adj (having small width)

Maltese

1 entries

dojoq adj (having small width)

Middle English

4 entries

narwe adj (having small width)
narwe adj (restrictive; without flexibility or latitude)
narwe adj (limited as to means; straitened; pinching)
narwen verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Middle Irish

1 entries

cáel adj (having small width)

Mizo

1 entries

zím adj (having small width)

Moksha

1 entries

тесна adj (having small width)

Mongolian

1 entries

нарийн adj (having small width)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

samivu adj (having small width)

Nogai

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Norman

1 entries

êtrait adj (having small width)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

smal adj (having small width)
trang adj (having small width)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

smal adj (having small width)
trong adj (having small width)

Occitan

2 entries

estrech adj (having small width)
estreit adj (having small width)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

узъкъ adj (having small width)

Old Irish

2 entries

coíl adj (having small width)
cumung adj (having small width)

Oromo

1 entries

dhiphoo adj (having small width)

Ossetian

1 entries

нарӕг adj (having small width)

Persian

1 entries

تنگ adj (having small width)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

enj adj (having small width)
schmaul adj (having small width)

Polish

4 entries

cienki adj (having small width)
wąski adj (having small width)
zawęzić verb (to reduce in width or extent)
zawęzić się verb (to get narrower)

Portuguese

4 entries

estreita adj (having small width)
estreito adj (having small width)
estreitar verb (to reduce in width or extent)
estreitar-se verb (to get narrower)

Quechua

1 entries

kicki adj (having small width)

Rapa Nui

2 entries

rikiriki adj (having small width)
vakavaka adj (having small width)

Romanian

3 entries

strâmt adj (having small width)
îngust adj (having small width)
îngusta verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Romansch

1 entries

stretg adj (having small width)

Russian

4 entries

те́сный adj (having small width)
у́зкий adj (having small width)
су́зить verb (to reduce in width or extent)
су́зиться verb (to get narrower)

Sanskrit

1 entries

अंहु adj (having small width)

Sardinian

2 entries

istrintu adj (having small width)
strintu adj (having small width)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

caol adj (having small width)
cumhang adj (having small width)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

uski adj (having small width)
ȕzak adj (having small width)
у̏зак adj (having small width)
уски adj (having small width)

Sherpa

1 entries

དོག་པུ adj (having small width)

Shor

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Sicilian

1 entries

strittu adj (having small width)

Slovak

1 entries

úzky adj (having small width)

Slovene

1 entries

ozek adj (having small width)

Southern Altai

1 entries

та́р adj (having small width)

Spanish

4 entries

angosto adj (having small width)
estrecho adj (having small width)
angostar verb (to reduce in width or extent)
estrechar verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Swedish

3 entries

långsmal adj (having small width)
smal adj (having small width)
trång adj (having small width)

Tabasaran

1 entries

дар adj (having small width)

Tajik

1 entries

танг adj (having small width)

Tamil

1 entries

குறுகிய adj (having small width)

Tatar

2 entries

тар adj (having small width)
тыгыз adj (having small width)

Telugu

2 entries

ఇరుకైన adj (having small width)
సన్నని adj (having small width)

Tetum

1 entries

kloot adj (having small width)

Thai

1 entries

แคบ adj (having small width)

Tibetan

1 entries

དོག་པོ adj (having small width)

Tofa

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Tooro

2 entries

funda adj (having small width)
taito adj (having small width)

Turkish

4 entries

dar adj (having small width)
daralmak verb (to reduce in width or extent)
daralmak verb (to get narrower)
darlaşmak verb (to reduce in width or extent)

Turkmen

1 entries

dar adj (having small width)

Tuvan

1 entries

тар adj (having small width)

Tày

1 entries

cặp adj (having small width)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ву́зький adj (having small width)
вузьки́й adj (having small width)
зву́жувати verb (to reduce in width or extent)
зву́жуватися verb (to get narrower)

Urdu

1 entries

تنگ adj (having small width)

Uyghur

1 entries

تار adj (having small width)

Uzbek

1 entries

tor adj (having small width)

Venetan

4 entries

strent adj (having small width)
strento adj (having small width)
stret adj (having small width)
streto adj (having small width)

Vietnamese

4 entries

chật adj (having small width)
chật hẹp adj (having small width)
eo hẹp adj (having small width)
hẹp adj (having small width)

Walloon

2 entries

stroet adj (having small width)
stroete adj (having small width)

Welsh

1 entries

cul adj (having small width)

West-Frisian

1 entries

smel adj (having small width)

Western Bukidnon Manobo

1 entries

meliɣet adj (having small width)

Yakut

2 entries

кыараҕас adj (having small width)
синньигэс adj (having small width)

Yiddish

2 entries

ענג adj (having small width)
שמאָל adj (having small width)

Zazaki

1 entries

teng (diq) adj (having small width)

Zealandic

1 entries

smal adj (having small width)

Sample sentences

34 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Have you ever had a narrow escape?

Source: tatoeba (18403)

Enter by the narrow gate.

Source: tatoeba (18957)

Two fat men trying to pass through a narrow doorway are in checkmate.

Source: tatoeba (18960)

I had a narrow escape.

Source: tatoeba (20724)

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