Crossword clues for narrowest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narrow \Nar"row\ (n[a^]r"r[-o]), a. [Compar. Narrower (n[a^]r"r[-o]*[~e]r); superl. Narrowest.] [OE. narwe, naru, AS. nearu; akin to OS. naru, naro.]
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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.
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Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
--Bp. Wilkins. Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near[5]; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow miss; a narrow majority.
--Dryden.Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. ``A narrow understanding.''
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Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
A very narrow and stinted charity.
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Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
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(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.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: narrow)
Usage examples of "narrowest".
The stone walls curved above her, hulking to barrel vaulting without even the narrowest of windows.
The Legend Riders surged forward, pushing the Guard back towards the narrowest point of the road.
Stavut saw that the Guard were approaching the narrowest point of the road.
Seventh Speaker for Management was the newest member of the Council, and of the narrowest stripe.
Though the land is vast between them, it is still the narrowest place between the New and the Old Worlds.
Such was his momentum that his right leg slipped at once across the frozen metal of the bumper, but he tightened his leg muscles convulsively and hooked his instep round the narrowest part of the bumper as his knees pointed down to the track rushing by beneath.
The stairs up to Astrid's flat were the narrowest and most twisted I had ever come across, and with George slung over my shoulder I had difficulty in negotiating them.
That wall was said to be forty feet thick at its narrowest, and near eighty on the seaward face, a double course of stones with an inner core of sand and rubble.
The wildlings had built their watchfire in a shallow depression above the narrowest part of the pass, with a sheer drop below and rock behind to shelter them from the worst of the wind.