What does narrow mean?
Word: Narrow
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Narrow means not wide; only a small distance from one side to the other.
Synonyms: thin, tight, slim
Antonyms: wide
How do you spell narrow?
Syllables: nar - row
Tricky part: There are two r's in the middle, and the ow at the end says oh, as in snow.
Watch out for: narow, narro
Memory tip: Picture a narrow railway track: its two rails run side by side, just like the two r's in the middle.
Idioms and Phrases
- a narrow escape: Only just getting away from danger or trouble. Example: "We had a narrow escape from the rain: we reached home just before it poured."
Narrow in a sentence
Example 1: The lanes in the old part of Varanasi are very narrow.
Example 2: Only one car at a time can cross the narrow bridge.
Example 3: The cat squeezed through a narrow gap in the fence.
Fun Fact
The toy train to Darjeeling runs on narrow tracks only 2 feet (610 mm) apart.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word: narrow
a) short
b) shallow
c) low
d) broad
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d) broad. A broad river stretches a long way from bank to bank, the reverse of a narrow one.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) narrow
b) cornor
c) tunnle
d) bridje
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a) narrow. Tunnel, bridge and corner are the right spellings of the other three.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The goats climbed slowly along a nerrow path beside the steep hill.
a) climbed
b) nerrow
c) goats
d) steep
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b) nerrow. The first vowel of narrow is a, not e.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word: narrow
a) nesse
b) nes
c) ness
d) niss
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c) ness. Narrow takes ness, with a double s, to make narrowness.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Usually, the narrowest of these is ____.
a) an airport runway
b) a highway
c) a footpath
d) a railway platform
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c) a footpath
2. A tailor makes a sleeve narrower. Now the sleeve is ____.
a) brighter in colour
b) tighter around the arm
c) longer down the arm
d) heavier on the arm
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b) tighter around the arm
