Of little width or breadth; measuring relatively little from side to side; not wide or broad: as, a narrow channel or passage; a narrow ribbon.Limited as regards extent, resources, means, sentiment, mental view, scope, individual disposition, or habits, etc.Straitened; limited; impoverished: as, narrow fortune.Contracted; lacking breadth or liberality of view; illiberal; bigoted.Niggardly; avaricious; covetous.Close; bare; so small or close as to be almost inadequate; barely sufficient: as, a narrow majority or escape (that is, a majority so small or an escape so close as almost to fail of being a majority or an escape).Close; near; accurate; scrutinizing; careful; minute.Restricted or brief, with reference to time.Synonyms and Cramped, pinched, scanty, mean.n. A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound; any contracted part of a navigable river or harbor: used chiefly in the plural: as, the Narrows at the entrance of New York harbor.n. A contracted part of an ocean current: usually in the plural: as, the narrows of the Gulf Stream at the south point of Florida.n. plural In coal-mining, roadways or galleries driven at right angles to drifts, and smaller than these in section.Narrowly.To make narrow or contracted; reduce in breadth or scope: as, to narrow one's sphere of action.Specifically In knitting, to reduce the number of stitches of: opposed to widen: as, to narrow a stocking at the toe.To become narrow, literally or figuratively.In the manège, to take less than the proper ground in stepping, or bear out insufficiently to the one hand or the other: said of a horse.In knitting, to reduce the number of stitches, either by knitting two together or by slipping one and binding it over the next: as, when you reach this point you must narrow.See nary.
