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narrowest Definition


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narrow
adj narrower, narrowest
    1. Having little breadth, especially in comparison with length.
    2. Said of interests or experience: restricted; limited.
    3. Said of attitudes or ideas: illiberal or unenlightened; intolerant or bigoted.
      Thesaurus: dogmatic, intolerant, parochial, narrow-minded, prejudiced, irrational, stupid, bigoted, exclusive, mean, niggardly, illiberal, small-minded; Antonym: liberal, tolerant.
    4. Said of the use of a word: restricted to its precise or original meaning; strict.
      Example: in its narrowest sense
    5. Close; only just achieved, etc.
      Example: a narrow escape
noun
    1. A narrow part or place.
    2. A narrow part of a channel or river, etc.
      Form: narrows
verb, tr & intr narrowed, narrowing
    1. To make or become narrow.
    2a. Said eg of a range of possibilities: to be reduced or limited;
      Thesaurus: circumscribe, diminish, limit, reduce, straiten; Antonym: broaden, increase.
      Form: narrow something down (also)
    2b. To reduce it.
      Form: narrow something down (also)
Derivative: narrowness
noun
    Etymology: Anglo Saxon nearu.



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