Narrow
Tapering
Synonyms: Small, tapering, narrow-gauged, slender, lean, spare, thin, confined, tight, restricted, constricted, pinched, meagre, scanty, exiguous, tapered, narrowing, strait, slim, slight, attenuated, attenuate, cramped, close, limited, confining, squeezed, scant, incommodious, and incapacious.
Limited
Synonyms: Limited, circumscribed, small, insufficient, lacking, select, restricted, straitened, inadequate, deficient, wanting, and exclusive.
Intolerant
Synonyms: Narrow-minded, illiberal, conservative, conventional, provincial, small-town, small-minded, petty, short-sighted, blinkered, hidebound, diehard, restricted, dogmatic, entrenched, bigoted, partisan, discriminatory, priggish, stuffy, moralistic, starchy, shockable, racialist, chauvinist, nationalistic, blimpish, jerkwater, intolerant, reactionary, ultra-conservative, parochial, insular, localist, petty-minded, close-minded, myopic, inward-looking, dyed-in-the-wool, limited, inflexible, rigid, prejudiced, biased, sectarian, prudish, strait-laced, puritanical, prim, prissy, racist, chauvinistic, sexist, parish-pump, borné, and claustral.
Literal
Contract
Synonyms: Reduce, shrink, straiten, contract, and constrict.
Sound
Synonyms: Strait(s), neck, waterway, sea passage, sound, channel, and passage.
Example Sentences
The path became narrow and winding.
She wore a narrow belt today.
They need to narrow their choices.
The narrow bridge swayed in winds.
