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narrowest |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Narrow \Nar"row\, a. [Compar. {Narrower}; superl. {Narrowest}.] [OE. narwe, naru, AS nearu; akin to OS naru, naro.] 1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side as a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem. Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas. --Shak. 2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world. --Bp. Wilkins. 3. Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close near -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority. --Dryden. 4. Limited as to means straitened; pinching; as narrow circumstances. 5. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as a narrow mind; narrow views. ``A narrow understanding.'' --Macaulay. 6. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish. A very narrow and stinted charity. --Smalridge. 7. Scrutinizing in detail; close accurate; exact. But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. --Milton. 8. (Phon.) 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; as [=e] ([=e]ve) and [=oo] (f[=oo]d), etc., from [i^] ([i^]ll) and [oo^] (f[oo^]t), etc See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 13. Note: Narrow is not unfrequently prefixed to words especially to participles and adjectives, forming compounds of obvious signification; as narrow-bordered, narrow-brimmed, narrow-breasted, narrow-edged, narrow-faced, narrow-headed, narrow-leaved, narrow-pointed, narrow-souled, narrow-sphered, etc {Narrow gauge}. (Railroad) See Note under {Gauge}, n., 6.
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