Definition of Narrow

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Narrow

Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

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.

Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.

Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.

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; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.

A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.

To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.

To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.

To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.

Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.

To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

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Narrow Quotations

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Charles de Gaulle

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

Narrow Translations

narrow in Dutch is smal, bekrompen, eng, krap, nauw
narrow in German is schmal, eng, begrenzte
narrow in Italian is venni, magro
narrow in Latin is angustus, substrictus
narrow in Norwegian is trang, smal
narrow in Spanish is angosto, estrecho, metido

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