narrow

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Small in width; not wide.

   We drove carefully along the narrow mountain road.

2. 2
   adj

   Limited in range, scope, or amount.

   She won the election by a narrow margin.

3. 3
   verb

   To make or become smaller in width or scope.

   They narrowed the list of candidates down to three.

4. 4
   adj

   Unwilling to accept other people's ideas or ways; narrow-minded.

   His narrow view of the world made debate difficult.

Common collocations

• narrow street Adjective + noun
• narrow win Adjective + noun

From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian naar, noar, noor, nåår (“narrow”),…

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