narrow🔊

Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

(figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.

Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted

Having a small margin or degree.

(dated) Limited as to means; straitened

Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.

Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.

(phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.

(computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

(in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.

To reduce in width or extent; to contract.

To get narrower.

(of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.

(knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

(programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.