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Synonyms of narrow in English:

narrow


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adjective

1‘the path became narrower and more overgrown’

SYNONYMS
small, tapered, tapering, narrowing, narrow-gauged
archaic strait
ANTONYMS

wide, broad

2‘he slid his arm around her narrow waist’

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slender, slim, lean, slight, spare, attenuated, thin
rare attenuate
ANTONYMS

broad

3‘he eased himself out of the narrow space’

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confined, cramped, tight, close, restricted, limited, constricted, confining, pinched, squeezed, meagre, scant, scanty, spare
rare incommodious, exiguous, incapacious
ANTONYMS

spacious

4‘a narrow range of products’

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limited, restricted, circumscribed, straitened, small, inadequate, insufficient, deficient, lacking, wanting
select, exclusive
ANTONYMS

wide, broad

5‘a narrow view of the world’

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narrow-minded, intolerant, illiberal, reactionary, conservative, ultra-conservative, conventional, parochial, provincial, insular, small-town, localist, small-minded, petty-minded, petty, close-minded, short-sighted, myopic, blinkered, inward-looking, hidebound, dyed-in-the-wool, diehard, limited, restricted, inflexible, dogmatic, rigid, entrenched, prejudiced, bigoted, biased, partisan, sectarian, discriminatory
prudish, priggish, strait-laced, stuffy, puritanical, moralistic, prim, starchy, prissy, shockable
racist, racialist, chauvinistic, chauvinist, sexist, nationalistic
British parish-pump, blimpish
borné
North American informal jerkwater
rare claustral
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broad-minded, tolerant

6‘this is nationalism in the narrowest sense of the word’

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strict, literal, exact, precise, close, faithful, true

7‘a narrow victory’

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marginal
lucky

verb

1‘the path narrowed and we had to proceed in single file’

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become narrower, get narrower, make narrower, become smaller, get smaller, make smaller, taper, diminish, decrease, reduce, contract, shrink, constrict
archaic straiten