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Showing words for NARROWLY using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Narrowly

narrowly

7 Letter Words for Narrowly

narrowy

6 Letter Words for Narrowly

arrowy, aworry, narrow, norway, ornary, warryn, worral, yarrow

5 Letter Words for Narrowly

arrow, laron, larry, lawny, loran, lorry, lowan, lowry, norry, noway, onlay, orary, rawly, rayon, roary, roral, rowan, royal, wanly, warly, worry

4 Letter Words for Narrowly

alow, anow, arno, arow, aryl, awny, awry, larn, lawn, loan, lora, lorn, lory, lowa, lown, lowy, loyn, lyon, lyra, narr, narw, nary, nowl, nowy, oary, only, oral, oran, orly, orna, orra, owly, rawn, roan, roar, rory, rowy, ryal, waly, wany, warl, warn, wary, woan, worn, wran, wray, yarl, yarn, yarr, yawl, yawn, yowl

3 Letter Words for Narrowly

aln, alo, alw, aly, any, aor, arn, arr, ary, awl, awn, ayr, lan, lao, lar, law, lay, lnr, loa, lor, low, loy, lyn, nar, naw, nay, noa, nol, nor, now, noy, oar, ola, ona, ony, ora, orl, ory, owl, own, ran, raw, ray, rly, rna, ron, row, rwy, rya, wan, war, way, woa, won, woy, wro, wry, wyn, yan, yar, yaw, yon, yor, yow

Definitions for Narrowly

[1] of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
[2] limited in extent or space; affording little room: narrow quarters.
[3] limited in range or scope: a narrow sampling of public opinion.
[4] lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas: a narrow man, knowing only his professional specialty; a narrow mind.
[5] with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close: a narrow escape.
[6] careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry.
[7] limited in amount; small; meager: narrow resources.
[8] straitened; impoverished: narrow circumstances.
[9] New England . stingy or parsimonious.
[10] Phonetics . (of a vowel) articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense. Compare lax(def 7) . (of a phonetic transcription) utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties. Compare broad(def 14) .
[11] (of livestock feeds) proportionately rich in protein.
[12] to decrease in width or breadth: This is where the road narrows.
[13] to make narrower.
[14] to limit or restrict (often followed by down ): to narrow an area of search; to narrow down a contest to three competitors.
[15] to make narrow-minded: Living in that village has narrowed him.
[16] a narrow part, place, or thing.
[17] a narrow part of a valley, passage, or road.
[18] narrows, (used with a singular or plural verb ) a narrow part of a strait, river, ocean current, etc.
[19] The Narrows, a narrow strait from upper to lower New York Bay, between Staten Island and Long Island. 2 miles (3.2 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.
[20] small in breadth, esp in comparison to length
[21] limited in range or extent
[22] limited in outlook; lacking breadth of vision
[23] limited in means or resources; meagre narrow resources
[24] barely adequate or successful (esp in the phrase a narrow escape )
[25] painstakingly thorough; minute a narrow scrutiny
[26] finance denoting an assessment of liquidity as including notes and coin in circulation with the public, banks' till money, and banks' balances narrow money Compare broad (def. 14)
[27] dialect overcareful with money; parsimonious
[28] phonetics another word for tense 1 (def. 4) relating to or denoting a transcription used to represent phonetic rather than phonemic distinctions another word for close 1 (def. 21)
[29] (of agricultural feeds) especially rich in protein
[30] narrow squeak informal an escape only just managed
[31] to make or become narrow; limit; restrict
[32] a narrow place, esp a pass or strait

Words related to Narrowly

narrowcarefully, barely, almost, close, nearly, scarcely, painstakingly

Words nearby Narrowly

narrownarration, narrative, narrative of the life of frederick douglass, narrativize, narrator, narrow, narrow boat, narrow construction, narrow escape, narrow gauge, narrow seas

Origin of Narrowly

before 900; Middle English; Old English nearu; cognate with Old Saxon naru narrow, Dutch naar unpleasant; akin to German Narbe scar, literally, narrow mark

Other words from Narrowly

nar·row·ly , adverb
nar·row·ness , noun
o·ver·nar·row , adjective
o·ver·nar·row·ly , adverb
o·ver·nar·row·ness , noun
un·nar·row , adjective
un·nar·row·ly , adverb
un·nar·rowed , adjective

Word origin for Narrowly

Old English nearu; related to Old Saxon naru

Synonyms for Narrowly

barely, carefully, almost, by a hair, by a whisker, by narrow margin, close, nearly, only just, painstakingly, scarcely, scrutinizingly