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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

Synonyms Strict, exact, close, true, literal, precise, and faithful.

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.