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Lenten, Quakerish, Spartan, Victorian, abate, abbreviate, abstemious, accented, accurate, adjust to, alter, alveolar, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate,
angustiseptal, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, ascetic, assimilated, assuage, attentive, attenuated, austere, authoritarian, back, badly off, barytone, be into, be strong in, bigot, bigoted, bilabial, borne, bound, bounded, box, box in, box up, broad, cacuminal, careful, censorious, central, cerebral, channel, checked, chinchy, circumscribe, circumscribed, close-fitting, close, closed, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, condition, conditioned, confine, confined, confining, conscientious, consolidate,
consonant, consonantal, constrict,
constricted, constringe, contain,
continuant, contract, copyright,
copyrighted, correct, cramp,
cramped, creedbound, critical, crowded, curtail, deaf, deaf to reason, decrease, delicate, demanding, demure,
denotative, dental, detailed, determinate, diminish, discipline, disciplined, dissimilated,
distill, distressed, dorsal, down to bedrock, draw, draw in, draw the line, draw together, dwarfed, dwarfish, embarrassed, ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exigent, exiguous, exquisite, fanatical, feature, feeling the pinch, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, finite, fixed, flat, focus, follow, front, frugal, fussy, glide,
glossal, glottal, go in,
go in for, guttural, hairbreadth, hard, hard up, heavy, hedge, hedge about, hem, hem in, hidebound, high, ill off, illiberal,
impecunious, impoverished, in Queer
Street, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inadmissible, incapacious, incommodious,
ineffectual, inexorable, inflexible, insular, intolerant, intonated, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, knit, labial, labiodental, labiovelar,
land-poor, lateral, lax,
lean, leaven, lessen, light, limit, limited, lingual, liquid, little-minded, little, localize, low, lucky, major in, meager, mean-minded, mean-spirited,
mean, mercenary, meticulous, mid-Victorian, mid, mingy, minor in, minute, miserly, mitigate, moderate, moderated, modify, modulate, monophthongal, muted, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, narrowed,
narrowing, narrows, nasal, nasalized, near, nearsighted, nice, niggard,
niggardly, obdurate, occlusive, old-maidish, on the edge, open,
out of pocket, overmodest, oversimplify, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, palliate, paltry, parochial, parsimonious, particular, passage, patent, patented, petty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pinched, pitch, pitched,
poor, poorly off, posttonic, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, preclusive, prescribed, prescriptive, preventive, priggish, prim,
prohibitive, proscribed, provincial, prudish, pucker, pucker up, punctilious, punctual, puny, purblind, purify,
puritanical, purse, pursue, qualified, qualify, reduce, reduce to elements, reduced, refine, refined, register,
regulate by, religious, restrain,
restrict, restricted, restrictive, retroflex, rigid, rigorous, rounded, sanctimonious, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy,
scrupulous, scrutinizing, searching,
season, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, semivowel, separative, set, set conditions, set limits, sharp, short, short of cash, short of funds, shorten, shortsighted, simplify, skimp,
skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small-minded, small, smug, snape, snobbish, soft, soften, solidify, sonant, spare,
sparing, specialize, specialize in, squeezed, starvation, stiff-necked, stingy, stint, stinted, stopped, strait, straiten, straitened,
straitlaced, straits, strangle, strangulate, strapped, streamline, stressed, strict, strip down, strong, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, subtle, surd, syllabic, taper, tapering, temper, tense, thick, thin,
throaty, tight-fisted, tight,
tighten, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous,
unliberal, unmoneyed, unnourishing, unnutritious, unprosperous, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel,
vowellike, watered, watery, weak, wide, wrinkle, xenophobic
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angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, circumscribed, close-fitting, close, closed, confined, constricted, cramp, cramped, creedbound, crowded, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, incommodious, insular, isthmian, isthmic, limited, little-minded, little, meager, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mean, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, narrow, near, nearsighted, parochial, petty,
provincial, purblind, restricted, scant, scanty, shortsighted, slender, small-minded,
small, strait, straitlaced, stuffy, tight, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal
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narrow margin |
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delicacy, delicate distinction, differentia,
differential, distinction, fine
point, hairline, margin, nice
distinction, nicety, nuance, particle of
difference, point of difference, refinement, shade of difference,
subtle distinction, subtlety, wide margin
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accost, advance, approach, appropinquate, approximate, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, center, centralize, close,
close in, close up, close with,
come, come closer, come forward,
come near, come on, come
together, come up, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, confront, converge,
draw near, draw nigh, encounter,
fall in with, funnel, gain upon, intersect, meet, near, nip, pinch, proximate, run together, sidle up to, step up, taper, unite
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Nazi, ageist, anti-Semitic, arbitrary, authoritarian, biased, bigot, bigoted, blind,
blinkered, borne, bourgeois,
chauvinistic, classist, close-minded, closed, complacent, confined, conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, cynical, deaf, deaf to new ideas, deaf to reason, denominational, die-hard, discriminative, discriminatory, disobliging, doctrinaire, dogmatic, elitist, ethnocentric, fanatical, fascist, firm, fixed,
fundamentalist, hidebound, holier-than-thou, homophobic, illiberal, immovable, inconsiderate, insular,
intolerant, intractable, intransigent, isolationist, jaundiced, jingoistic, know-nothing, limited, little-minded, little, locked-in, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mean, middle-class, misanderous, misanthropic, misogynous,
myopic, narrow-hearted, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, narrow, nearsighted, nonobjective, obdurate, obstinate,
old-fashioned, old-fogyish, one-sided, opinionated, opposed to change, orthodox, parochial, partial, partisan, pettifogging, petty, prejudiced, prepossessed, priggish, prim, proper, provincial, prudish, purblind,
puritanical, racist, reactionary, rednecked, right-wing, rightist, rigorous, rooted, sanctimonious, sectarian, self-righteous,
set in one's ways, settled, sexist,
shallow, shortsighted, small-minded, small, smug, snobbish, square, stiff-backed, stiff-necked, stiff, straight,
straitlaced, stuffy, superpatriotic, traditional, twisted, ultraconservative, ultranationalist, uncatholic, unchanging, uncharitable, uncompromising,
uncondoning, undetached, undispassionate, unenlarged, unforbearing, unfriendly, ungenerous, unhearing, unindulgent, unliberal, unprogressive, unreasonable, unsophisticated, unsympathetic, unworldly, unyielding, warped, wearing blinders, wearing blinkers, xenophobic
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ageism, anti-Semitism, arbitrariness,
bent, bias, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, blindness, blinkers, chauvinism, class consciousness, closed-mindedness, colored view,
conservatism, conventionality, creedboundness, cynicism, denominationalism, discrimination,
disobligingness, dogmatism, ethnocentrism, fanaticism, fixed ideas, fundamentalism,
hideboundness, holier-than-thou attitude, illiberality, immovability, insularity, intolerance, intractability, intransigence, jaundice,
jaundiced eye, jaundiced view, jingoism, lack of scope, lack of sophistication, leaning, made-up mind, meanness, middle-class
morality, middle-class outlook, misanthropy, monomania, myopia, narrow view, narrowness, nearsightedness, obstinacy, old-fashioned ideas,
one-sidedness, orthodoxy, parochialism, partiality, partisanship, pedagoguery, pedantry, pettiness, positivism, preconception, prejudgment,
prejudice, prepossession, priggishness, provincialism, prudishness, purblindness,
puritanism, racial prejudice, racism, rigidness, rooted ideas, sanctimoniousness, sectarianism, self-righteousness, sexism,
shortsightedness, slanted view, small-mindedness, smugness, snobbishness, stiffness, stubbornness, stuffiness, tunnel vision, twist, ultraconversatism, uncatholicity, uncharitability, ungenerosity, unprogressive ideas, warp,
xenophobia
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Main entries similar to: narrow
abate, abbreviate, abridge, abstemious, accurate, acute, adjust, alter,
alveolar, arm, ascetic, assimilated, assuage, attentive, austere, authoritarian, back, backward, badly off, bay, bayou,
belt, bight, bigoted, bilabial, borne, bottleneck, bound, box,
box in, broad, canal, censor, censorious, central, cerebral, channel, circumscribe, close, closed, closed-minded, closefisted, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, condition, conditioned, confine, confined, conscientious, consolidate, consonant, constrict, constricted, contain, contract, copyright, correct, cove, cramp, cramped,
creedbound, creek, critical, crowded, curtail, deaf, decrease, defile,
definite, delicate, demanding, demure, dental, detailed, determinate, diminish, discipline, disciplined, distill, distressed, dorsal, draw, draw in, draw the line, dwarfed, embarrassed, estuary, ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exigent, exiguous, exquisite, fanatical, feature, fine, finicky, finite,
fiord, firth, fixed, fjord, flat, follow, frith, front,
frugal, fussy, genteel, glide, glossal, glottal, go in for, gulf, gut, guttural, harbor, hard, hard up,
heavy, hedge, hem, hem in, hidebound, high, ill off, illiberal, impecunious, impoverished,
inadmissible, incommodious, ineffectual, insular, intolerant, isthmus, jejune, knit,
labial, lateral, lax, lean, leaven, Lenten, light, limit,
limited, lingual, liquid, little, little-minded, localize, loch, low,
meager, mean, meticulous, mid, mid-Victorian, minute, miserly, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mouth, muted,
narrow gauge, narrow-minded, narrows, nasal, nasalized, near, nearsighted, neck, nice, niggardly, occlusive, open, out of pocket, palatal, palliate, paltry, parochial, parsimonious, particular, partisan, pass, patent, patented,
petty, pharyngeal, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pinched, pinching, pitched, poor, precise, preclusive, prescribed, prescriptive, preventive, priggish, prim, prohibitive, provincial, prudish, pucker, punctilious, punctual, puny, purblind, purify, puritanical, purse, pursue, qualified, qualify, reach, reduce, reduced,
refine, refined, register, regulate, religious, restrain, restrict, restricted, restrictive, retroflex, rigid, rigorous, road,
rounded, sanctimonious, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimpy, scrupulous, season, sectarian, select, selective, selfish, separative, set, short, shorten, shortsighted, simplify,
skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, small-minded, smug, snobbish,
soft, soften, solidify, sonant, sound, spare, sparing, Spartan, specialize, specialize in,
squeezed, starvation, stiff-necked, stingy, stint, stinted, stopped, strait, straiten, straitened, straitlaced, straits, strangle, strapped, streamline, stressed, strict, strong, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, subtle, surd, syllabic, taper, temper, tense, thick,
thin, throat, throaty, tight, tighten, tonal, tonic, tough,
twangy, unaccented, uncharitable, ungenerous, unprosperous,
unstressed, Victorian, voiced, voiceless, vowel, watery, weak, wide,
wrinkle
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