The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - narrowadj.

1) constricted, slender, slim, thin, restricted, straitened, attenuated, narrowed; narrowing, tapering: We squeezed through the narrow passage to freedom. 2) confined, confining, limited, cramped, close, meagre, pinched, tight, incommodious: I awoke in a cell so narrow I could scarcely move. 3) strict, careful, close, precise, exact, exacting, demanding, finicky, finical, sharp, meticulous, scrupulous, fussy, rigid, searching, critical: The suspected forgeries were submitted to the narrow scrutiny of several experts. 4) restricted, limited, circumscribed, proscribed, denotative: I learnt the meaning of charity in its narrowest sense. 5) See narrow-minded, below. 6) close, hairbreadth, lucky: I'd had a very narrow escape, for the bullet just grazed my scalp. 7) stingy, niggardly, parsimonious, miserly, tight, sparing, tight-fisted, mean, mercenary Brit mingy, Dialectal near, Colloq close: He was so narrow he barely allowed himself the essentials. --v. 8) constrict, limit, qualify, reduce, lessen, diminish, decrease: She narrowed her chances of winning by buying only one lottery ticket. 9) limit, restrict, focus, confine, concentrate, narrow down: They have narrowed the search for the boy to the area near Chester. --n. 1) 0 narrows. strait(s) , channel, passage: The vessel approached the narrows at dead slow speed.