narrow
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
Adjective 4 meanings
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
“a narrow hallway”
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
“a narrow interpretation”
Having a small margin or degree.
“a narrow escape”
Noun 1 meaning
A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
“the narrows of New York harbor”
Verb 4 meanings
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
“We need to narrow the search.”
To get narrower.
“The road narrows.”
To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
“He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.”
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
Etymology
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”).
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NARROW at a glance
NARROW has 6 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (N 1 + A 1 + R 1 + R 1 + O 1 + W 4) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,637 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with narrow
All rhymes- TOMORROW13
- GROW8
- THROW11
- ARROW8
- BORROW11
- CROW9
- SORROW9
- OVERTHROW18
- BROW9
- MARROW11
- SPARROW12
- MORROW11
One letter away
- MARROW11
- BARROW11
- HARROW12
- FARROW12
- YARROW12
- TARROW9
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