narrowest
最窄,最窄的,最狭窄的,最狭窄
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Definitions
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nar·row·er, nar·row·est.
- : of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- : limited in extent or space; affording little room: narrow quarters.
- : limited in range or scope: a narrow sampling of public opinion.
- : lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas: a narrow man, knowing only his professional specialty; a narrow mind.
- : with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close: a narrow escape.
- : careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry.
- : limited in amount; small; meager: narrow resources.
- : straitened; impoverished: narrow circumstances.
- : New England. stingy or parsimonious.
- : Phonetics. articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense.Compare lax. utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties.Compare broad.
- : proportionately rich in protein.
Phrases
- narrow escape
- straight and narrow
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The narrowest piece of land was at Panama, but it was covered in dense, mountainous jungle.
The score was, admittedly, 1-0 to Argentina, the narrowest possible margin of victory in football.
Both men have tried to redefine mass surveillance in the narrowest way possible.
What follows from here is a marvel of the artistry of argument, of a mind at work against the narrowest ideas of its age.
George W. Bush won reelection by the narrowest margin of any presidential incumbent in American history.
I led the whole party round to where the gut was narrowest, swam to the other side, and called to the black to follow me.
The salaries of his gentlemen and attendants were all on the narrowest scale.
They are not technical schools but cultural institutions in the narrowest, or broadest, sense of that term.
Here it is easy with the physical eye to look over the highest roof, which must also always be the narrowest.
Even in the narrowest view possible to the teacher, is it not for her interest that her pupils should be healthy?