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- pronunciation:
- nae
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- parts of speech:
- adjective, verb, noun
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
narrower, narrowest |
| definition 1: |
When something is narrow, the distance across it is small. A narrow street might have only one lane, for example. A snake's body is something that is narrow. It is both narrow and long.
Sophia's family shops at a small grocery store, and the aisles are very narrow.I can't wear my sister's shoes. They are long enough, but they are too narrow.The old streets are too narrow for large trucks to go through.- synonyms:
- slender, slight, thin
- antonyms:
- broad, wide
- similar words:
- fine, slim, spare
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| definition 2: |
When you have a narrow mind, it means that you do not change your ideas or opinions easily.
My grandfather has a narrow mind about a music. He only wants to listen to music that he grew up with and nothing else.- synonyms:
- rigid, set
- similar words:
- fixed, strict
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| definition 3: |
If you have a narrow escape from a hurricane, it means that you almost did not escape the hurricane.
We had a narrow escape when the tornado passed two blocks from our house.- synonyms:
- slender, tight
- similar words:
- spare
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| related words: |
compact, slight, thin, tight |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
narrows, narrowing, narrowed |
| definition 1: |
When something narrows, it becomes narrower.
The path narrowed as we got deeper into the woods.- similar words:
- contract, lessen, reduce
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| definition 2: |
If you narrow something, you make it less wide or more limited.
The police narrowed their investigation to just two suspects.- similar words:
- contract, lessen, tighten
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| related words: |
reduce |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
When we talk about "the narrows," we mean the part of a river that is less wide than the other parts of the river. A narrow part of a lake or other body of water can also be called a narrows.
The new bridge goes across the narrows.- similar words:
- channel, fjord
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| derivations: |
narrowly (adv.), narrowness (n.) |
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