narrowry.html - {v. phr.} To limit within very strict margins. * /Of the numerous applicants, the list has been narrowed down to just a few./

narrowry.html - {n. phr.} An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. * /If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!/

narrowry.html - {adj. phr.} Limited in outlook; resistant to new ideas; bigoted. * /He is generally very open about everything, but when it comes to politics, he is terribly narrow-minded./

narrowry.html - adj., n., & v. --adj.

(narrower, narrowest)
1 a of small width in proportion to length; lacking breadth. b confined or confining; constricted (within narrow bounds).
2 of limited scope; restricted (in the narrowest sense).
3 with little margin (a narrow escape).
4 searching; precise; exact (a narrow examination).
5 = NARROW-MINDED.
6 (of a vowel) tense.
7 of small size.

--n.

1 (usu. in pl.) the narrow part of a strait, river, sound, etc.
2 a narrow pass or street.

--v.

1 intr. become narrow; diminish; contract; lessen.
2 tr. make narrow; constrict; restrict.

narrow boat Brit. a canal boat, esp. one less than 7 ft. (2.1 metres) wide. narrow circumstances poverty. narrow cloth cloth less than 52 inches wide. narrow gauge a railway track that has a smaller gauge than the standard one. narrow seas the English Channel and the Irish Sea. narrow squeak 1 a narrow escape.
2 a success barely attained.

narrowish adj. narrowly adv. narrowness n. [OE nearu nearw- f. Gmc]

narrowry.html - adj.
rigid or restricted in one's views, intolerant, prejudiced, illiberal.

narrow-mindedly adv. narrow-mindedness n.

narrowry.html - {v. phr.} To limit within very strict margins. * /Of the numerous applicants, the list has been narrowed down to just a few./