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.