Narrow

Adjective

 * 1) having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
 * a narrow hallway
 * 1)  Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
 * a narrow interpretation

Antonyms

 * wide

Derived terms

 * narrow-minded
 * narrowness

Verb

 * 1)  To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
 * 2)  To get narrower.
 * The road narrows.

Thesaurus
Lenten, Quakerish, Spartan, Victorian, abate, abbreviate, abstemious, accented, accurate, adjust to, alter, alveolar, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, ascetic, assimilated, assuage, attentive, attenuated, austere, authoritarian, back, badly off, barytone, be into, be strong in, bigot, bigoted, bilabial, borne, bound, bounded, box, box in, box up, broad, cacuminal, careful, censorious, central, cerebral, channel, checked, chinchy, circumscribe, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, closed, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, condition, conditioned, confine, confined, confining, conscientious, consolidate, consonant, consonantal, constrict, constricted, constringe, contain, continuant, contract, copyright, copyrighted, correct, cramp, cramped, creedbound, critical, crowded, curtail, deaf, deaf to reason, decrease, delicate, demanding, demure, denotative, dental, detailed, determinate, diminish, discipline, disciplined, dissimilated, distill, distressed, dorsal, down to bedrock, draw, draw in, draw the line, draw together, dwarfed, dwarfish, embarrassed, ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exigent, exiguous, exquisite, fanatical, feature, feeling the pinch, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, finite, fixed, flat, focus, follow, front, frugal, fussy, glide, glossal, glottal, go in, go in for, guttural, hairbreadth, hard, hard up, heavy, hedge, hedge about, hem, hem in, hidebound, high, ill off, illiberal, impecunious, impoverished, in Queer Street, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inadmissible, incapacious, incommodious, ineffectual, inexorable, inflexible, insular, intolerant, intonated, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, knit, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, land-poor, lateral, lax, lean, leaven, lessen, light, limit, limited, lingual, liquid, little, little-minded, localize, low, lucky, major in, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mercenary, meticulous, mid, mid-Victorian, mingy, minor in, minute, miserly, mitigate, moderate, moderated, modify, modulate, monophthongal, muted, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, narrowed, narrowing, narrows, nasal, nasalized, near, nearsighted, nice, niggard, niggardly, obdurate, occlusive, old-maidish, on the edge, open, out of pocket, overmodest, oversimplify, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, palliate, paltry, parochial, parsimonious, particular, passage, patent, patented, petty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pinched, 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, qualified, qualify, reduce, reduce to elements, reduced, refine, refined, register, regulate by, religious, restrain, restrict, restricted, restrictive, retroflex, rigid, rigorous, rounded, sanctimonious, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrupulous, scrutinizing, searching, season, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, semivowel, separative, set, set conditions, set limits, sharp, short, short of cash, short of funds, shorten, shortsighted, simplify, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, small-minded, smug, snape, snobbish, soft, soften, solidify, sonant, spare, sparing, specialize, specialize in, squeezed, starvation, stiff-necked, stingy, stint, stinted, stopped, strait, straiten, straitened, straitlaced, straits, strangle, strangulate, strapped, streamline, stressed, strict, strip down, strong, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, subtle, surd, syllabic, taper, tapering, temper, tense, thick, thin, throaty, tight, tight-fisted, tighten, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal, unmoneyed, unnourishing, unnutritious, unprosperous, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, watered, watery, weak, wide, wrinkle, xenophobic

Etymology
Old English nearu

Adjective

 * Arabic: ضيق
 * Armenian: նեղ
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: вузкі
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: estret, estreta
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 窄 (tsak9)
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: snæver, tæt
 * Dutch:
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ვიწრო
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: στενός
 * Hindi: तंग
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 狭い
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 좁은
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ته‌سک
 * Sorani: ته‌سک


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: šaurs
 * Limburgish:, smaal
 * Lithuanian: siauras, siaura
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: تنگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, тесный
 * Scottish Gaelic: caol, cumhang
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: узак, уски
 * Roman: uzak, uski
 * Slovak: úzky
 * Slovene: ozek
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఇరుకైన (irukaina), సన్నని (sannani)
 * Thai: แคบ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вузький
 * Urdu: تنگ
 * Vietnamese: hẹp, chật hẹp, eo hẹp
 * Welsh: cul
 * West Frisian:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вузький
 * Urdu: تنگ
 * Vietnamese: hẹp, chật hẹp, eo hẹp
 * Welsh: cul
 * West Frisian:

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French:, rétrécir
 * German:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Polish: zawężać, zwężać


 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сузити
 * Roman: suziti
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish: daralmak, darlaşmak


 * Finnish:
 * Polish: zwężać się


 * Spanish: estrecharse
 * Turkish: daralmak, darlaşmak