<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>narrower</li><li>narrowest</li><li>of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.</li><li>limited in extent or space; affording little room: narrow quarters.</li><li>limited in range or scope: a narrow sampling of public opinion.</li><li>lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas: a narrow man, knowing only his professional specialty; a narrow mind.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>small-minded</li><li>shallow</li><li>limited</li><li>biased</li></ul><p><strong>Definition</strong></p><ul><li>with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close: a narrow escape.</li><li>careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry.</li><li>limited in amount; small; meager: narrow resources.</li><li>characterized by limited means; straitened; impoverished: Since work was scarce, he soon found himself in narrow circumstances.</li><li>New England: stingy or parsimonious.</li></ul><p><strong>Phonetics</strong></p><ul><li>(of a vowel) articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense.</li><li>(of a phonetic transcription) utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties.</li><li>(of livestock feeds) proportionately rich in protein.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to decrease in width or breadth: This is where the road narrows.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to make narrower.</li><li>to limit or restrict (often followed by down): to narrow down a contest to three competitors.</li><li>to narrow an area of search; to narrow down a contest to three competitors.</li><li>to make narrow-minded: Living in that village has narrowed him.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a narrow part, place, or thing.</li><li>a narrow part of a valley, passage, or road.</li></ul><p><strong>Narrows</strong></p><ul><li>(used with a singular or plural verb) a narrow part of a strait, river, ocean current, etc.</li><li>the Narrows, a narrow strait from upper to lower New York Bay, between Staten Island and Long Island.</li><li>2 miles (3.2 kilometers) long; 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) wide.</li></ul>