narrow
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2.6
- adjective
- /ˈnɛroʊ/
:
limitado
- And if your only experience is very narrow, that's all you know.
- a narrow range
- narrow interests
- too narrow
Well, right now we stand with a narrow House competition.
- Well, right now we stand with a narrow House competition.
- Ray Kurzweil wrote about narrow AI versus strong AI.
- I can reduce all of them into this narrow classification.
- Things that are like narrow AI is not a species level risk.
- But maybe that's actually very narrow style thinking because.
- If my soul is too narrow, open it up.
- This is just, you know, you know, narrow AI amplified misinformation.
- We as a species cannot survive outside of a very narrow band of pH, right?
- I deliberately set my parameters very narrow, right?
- And you know, without books like this, we get narrow views.
- And his mother has a very narrow group of people she's helping.
Examples
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And you know, without books like this, we get narrow views.
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Each time he thought about the narrow-mindedness of people, he began to seethe all over again.
Fiction book (1990) -
I had such narrow ideas of who I could be.
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We have a very narrow weather window.
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We as a species cannot survive outside of a very narrow band of pH, right?
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In such an ecosystem, life processes are restricted to a narrow zone at or near the soil surface.
Academic text (1999) -
It looks a pretty narrow field from where I'm sitting.
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The administration's grand strategy was therefore perceived as promoting narrow U.S. interests rather than global public goods.
Academic text (2011) -
Almost without exception, clerics used a narrow selection of scripture to support their case against dancing.
Academic text (1999) -
His narrow perspective on the issue prevented him from considering alternative solutions.
Synonyms
97
1.9
Having only a small, specific role in an activity
87
2.0
Small in amount or number, not large
52
4.7
Limits what people can do by rules or laws
25
5.1
Not willing to accept ideas or ways different from their own
18
3.9
Limited so only certain people can see or use it
1
5.6
That limits someone's freedom or ability to move
A little narrower than usual
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.8
A railway track with rails closer together than on a standard railway
A small toad with a very narrow mouth that lives in the southeastern United States
- Specialized
An airplane with one aisle that airlines often use on short or domestic flights
- Specialized
A passenger plane with one aisle that is used for short or medium flights
- Specialized
A plant from western North America with long narrow clusters of small yellow flowers
- Specialized
A tall marsh plant with long narrow leaves and a brown flower head
- Specialized
A plant with narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers that grows in the western United States
- Australian
A large Australian tree from Queensland with cream flowers that have red marks inside
A European plant with purple and pink flowers that farmers grow for animal food or to improve soil
A plant from the southwestern United States with narrow leaves and yellow-orange flowers
A tall water plant with narrow leaves and a long brown flower spike that grows in wetlands
A fern with narrow leaves on yellowish stalks that grows in shady rocky places
A flowering plant with narrow leaves and white flowers at the top
A small toad with smooth tough skin that hides and lives in central and western North America
How Broad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Narrow comes from an old root meaning 'tight' or 'close', the same root as near. That's why narrow can mean 'limited' or 'not open to many ideas', because the choices or view are held 'close' and small.