narrow (n.)
- alter
- alveolar
- ascetic
- authoritarian
- back
- barytone
- bigot
- bilabial
- borne
- bound
- box
- broad
- central
- channel
- close
- compact
- compress
- concentrate
- condition
- consonant
- continuant
- contract
- copyright
- cramp
- deaf
- decrease
- dental
- discipline
- draw
- exclusive
- feature
- fine
- finite
- flat
- focus
- front
- glide
- glossal
- guttural
- hard
- heavy
- hedge
- hem
- high
- knit
- labial
- labiodental
- lateral
- lax
- lean
- leaven
- light
- limit
- limited
- lingual
- liquid
- little
- low
- mean
- mercenary
- mid
- minute
- moderate
- narrowing
- narrows
- nasal
- nice
- niggard
- occlusive
- open
- oxytone
- palatal
- particular
- passage
- patent
- petty
- pharyngeal
- pitch
- poor
- preventive
- prim
- provincial
- pucker
- purse
- register
- religious
- rigid
- scant
- scanty
- searching
- season
- semivowel
- set
- sharp
- short
- slight
- slim
- small
- sonant
- spare
- starvation
- stint
- strait
- straits
- strict
- strong
- subsistence
- surd
- taper
- tapering
- temper
- tense
- thick
- thin
- tight
- tonic
- velar
- vowel
- weak
- wrinkle
narrow (v.)
- abate
- abbreviate
- alter
- assuage
- back
- bound
- box
- channel
- circumscribe
- close
- compact
- compress
- concentrate
- condense
- condition
- confine
- consolidate
- constrict
- constringe
- contain
- contract
- copyright
- correct
- cramp
- curtail
- deaf
- decrease
- diminish
- discipline
- distill
- draw
- exact
- feature
- fine
- flat
- focus
- follow
- front
- glide
- hard
- hedge
- hem
- high
- knit
- lax
- lean
- leaven
- lessen
- light
- limit
- little
- localize
- low
- mean
- mid
- minute
- mitigate
- moderate
- modify
- modulate
- near
- nice
- open
- oversimplify
- palliate
- patent
- pitch
- prim
- pucker
- purify
- purse
- pursue
- qualify
- reduce
- refine
- register
- restrain
- restrict
- retroflex
- scant
- scrimp
- season
- select
- set
- sharp
- short
- shorten
- simplify
- skimp
- slight
- slim
- soften
- solidify
- spare
- specialize
- stint
- straiten
- strangle
- strangulate
- streamline
- strict
- taper
- temper
- tense
- thin
- tight
- tighten
- weak
- wrinkle
narrow (adj.)
- abstemious
- accented
- accurate
- alveolar
- apical
- articulated
- ascetic
- attentive
- attenuated
- austere
- authoritarian
- back
- bigoted
- bilabial
- borne
- bound
- bounded
- broad
- cacuminal
- careful
- censorious
- central
- cerebral
- channel
- checked
- chinchy
- circumscribed
- close
- close-fitting
- closed
- compact
- condition
- conditioned
- confined
- confining
- conscientious
- consonant
- consonantal
- constricted
- continuant
- copyrighted
- correct
- cramped
- critical
- crowded
- deaf
- delicate
- demanding
- demure
- denotative
- dental
- detailed
- determinate
- disciplined
- distressed
- dorsal
- dwarfish
- embarrassed
- ethnocentric
- exact
- exacting
- exceptional
- exclusive
- exigent
- exiguous
- exquisite
- fanatical
- fine
- finical
- finicky
- finite
- fixed
- flat
- front
- frugal
- fussy
- glossal
- glottal
- guttural
- hard
- heavy
- hidebound
- high
- illiberal
- impecunious
- impoverished
- inadmissible
- incommodious
- ineffectual
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insular
- intolerant
- isthmian
- jejune
- knit
- labial
- lateral
- lax
- lean
- light
- limited
- lingual
- liquid
- little
- low
- lucky
- meager
- mean
- mercenary
- meticulous
- mid
- mingy
- minute
- miserly
- moderate
- moderated
- muted
- narrow-minded
- narrowed
- narrowing
- nasal
- near
- nearsighted
- nice
- niggardly
- obdurate
- occlusive
- old-maidish
- open
- overmodest
- palatal
- palatalized
- paltry
- parochial
- parsimonious
- particular
- patent
- patented
- petty
- pharyngeal
- phonemic
- phonetic
- phonic
- pinched
- pitched
- poor
- precise
- preclusive
- prescribed
- prescriptive
- preventive
- priggish
- prim
- prohibitive
- proscribed
- provincial
- prudish
- punctilious
- punctual
- puny
- purblind
- puritanical
- qualified
- reduced
- refined
- religious
- restricted
- restrictive
- retroflex
- rigid
- rigorous
- rounded
- sanctimonious
- scant
- scanty
- scrawny
- scrimpy
- scrupulous
- searching
- select
- selective
- separative
- set
- sharp
- short
- shortsighted
- skimpy
- slender
- slight
- slim
- small
- small-minded
- smug
- snobbish
- soft
- sonant
- spare
- sparing
- stiff-necked
- stingy
- stinted
- stopped
- strait
- straitlaced
- stressed
- strict
- strong
- stuffy
- stunted
- subtle
- surd
- syllabic
- tapering
- tense
- thick
- thin
- throaty
- tight
- tonal
- tonic
- unaccented
- uncharitable
- ungenerous
- unstressed
- velar
- vocalic
- voiced
- voiceless
- vowellike
- watered
- watery
- weak
- wide
- xenophobic
A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair;
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
One science only will one genius fit:
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future,—two eternities!
Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne.—
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
