Reverse Dictionary: NARROW

ADJECTIVES
► ARCT narrow, confined, tight → 1545  obs.
► CRAMP contracted, strait, narrow; cramping → 1786
► HAIR-BREADTH extremely narrow or close → 1604
► HAIR’S-BREADTH extremely narrow or close → 1841
► NARE narrow → c888 obs.
► NARRISH somewhat narrow → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NARROWY narrowish → 1858
► NEAR narrow → 1884 Sc.
► SCANT adj. narrow → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SLANGRELL long and narrow → 1643 obs.
► SQUINNY very thin, lean, or slender; narrow → 1784

ADVERBS
► BY THE SKIN OF ONE’S TEETH with difficulty, narrowly, barely → 1893
► NARLY narrowly → 1816 Sc.
► WITH THE SKIN OF ONE’S TEETH with difficulty, narrowly, barely → 1560

NOUNS
► ARCTATION a straightening or making narrow, a crowding ..1656 mostly medical usage (Bk.)
► ARCTITUDE tightness, narrowness, straitness → 1828 
► BOTTLE-NECK any narrow opening or avenue → 1928
► NARROW a narrow part, place, or thing; the narrow part of something → a1300
► NARROWHEAD narrowness → c1440 obs.
► NARROWTH narrowness, constraint → a1225 obs.

VERBS
► LITTLE to make small or insignificant; to make narrow → 1931 Amer. dial.