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Antonyms for narrower
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : nar-oh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnær oʊ |
Definition of narrower
Origin :- Old English nearu "narrow, constricted, limited; petty; causing difficulty, oppressive; strict, severe," from West Germanic *narwaz "narrowness" (cf. Frisian nar, Old Saxon naru, Middle Dutch nare, Dutch naar); not found in other Germanic languages and of unknown origin. The narrow seas (c.1400) were the waters between Great Britain and the continent and Ireland. Related: Narrowness.
- adj confined, restricted
- adj intolerant, small-minded
- adj cheap, stingy
- Well does he deserve it, for no man ever had a narrower chance for his life.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- It was of the room I slept in, only it was narrower in the dream, and loftier, and the window was gone.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- To our left is our own river, the Pahi, narrower than the other.
- Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
- The driver turned off the road into a narrower lane as soon as it was dark.
- Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
- In this sense the permanent later love is narrower than first love.
- Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
- He continued to wave his hat, they continued to grow taller and narrower.
- Extract from : « A Waif of the Plains » by Bret Harte
- He wasted half an hour before realizing that it was getting no narrower.
- Extract from : « Wind » by Charles Louis Fontenay
- The world was narrower then than it is now; and I listened to the world.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- Here it was narrower, there wider, but throughout its length it was free and unimpeded.
- Extract from : « "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" » by Douglas English
- The third proved to be a smaller house on a narrower street.
- Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
Synonyms for narrower
- attenuated
- avaricious
- biased
- bigoted
- circumscribed
- close
- compressed
- confining
- conservative
- constricted
- contracted
- conventional
- cramped
- definite
- determinate
- dogmatic
- exclusive
- exiguous
- fine
- fixed
- hidebound
- illiberal
- incapacious
- inexorable
- inflexible
- limited
- linear
- meager
- mean
- mercenary
- narrow-minded
- near
- obdurate
- paltry
- parochial
- partial
- pent
- pinched
- precarious
- precise
- prejudiced
- reactionary
- scant
- scanty
- scrimpy
- select
- set
- shrunken
- slender
- slim
- small
- spare
- strait
- taper
- tapered
- tapering
- thin
- threadlike
- tight
- ungenerous
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