close call
close shave
squeak
squeaker
narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
straight and narrow
strait and narrow | the way of proper and honest behavior, he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow |
western narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne olivacea | small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne carolinensis | small toad of southeastern United States |
canal boat
narrow boat
narrowboat | a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals |
narrowbody aircraft
narrow-body aircraft
narrow-body | a commercial airliner with a single aisle |
| narrow gauge | a railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard . inches |
| narrow wale | corduroy with narrow ribs |
narrow margin
narrowness slimness | a small margin, the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory, the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just % of the popular vote |
narrow-mindedness
narrowness | an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior |
| narrow | a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water |
narrow-leaved flame flower
Talinum augustissimum | similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers, southwestern United States |
| narrow-leaved white-topped aster | a variety of white-topped aster |
narrow goldenrod
Solidago spathulata | western American goldenrod with long narrow clusters of small yellow flowers |
lesser bullrush
narrow-leaf cattail
narrow-leaved reedmace
soft flag
Typha angustifolia | reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia |
Queensland bottletree
narrow-leaved bottletree
Brachychiton rupestris
Sterculia rupestris | large tree of Queensland having creamolored flowers blotched with red inside, sometimes placed in genus Sterculia |
flat pea narrow-leaved everlasting pea
Lathyrus sylvestris | European perennial with mottled flowers of purple and pink, sometimes cultivated for fodder or as green manure |
English plantain
narrow-leaved plantain
ribgrass
ribwort
ripple-grass
buckthorn Plantago lanceolata | an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions |
| narrow-leaved water plantain | a variety of water plantain |
narrow-leaf penstemon
Penstemon linarioides | plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters, Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona |
Central American strap fern
narrow-leaved strap fern
Campyloneurum augustifolium | fern with shorter and narrower leaves than Florida strap fern, Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Argentina |
silvery spleenwort glade fern
narrow-leaved spleenwort
Athyrium pycnocarpon
Diplazium pycnocarpon | North American fern with narrow fronds on yellowish leafstalks |
long beech fern
narrow beech fern
northern beech fern
Phegopteris connectilis
Dryopteris phegopteris
Thelypteris phegopteris | beech fern of North America and Eurasia |
constrict
constringe
narrow | become tight or as if tight, Her throat constricted |
narrow
contract | make or become more narrow or restricted, The selection was narrowed, The road narrowed |
specialize
specialise
narrow narrow down | become more focus on an area of activity or field of study, She specializes in Near Eastern history |
pin down
peg down
nail down
narrow down
narrow
specify | define clearly, I cannot narrow down the rules for this game |
bloodthirsty
bloody-minded
sanguinary | marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed, bloody-minded tyrants, bloodthirsty yells, went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood-G.W.Johnson |
| broad-minded | inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own, a judge who is broad-minded but even-handed |
broad
large-minded
liberal
tolerant | showing or characterized by broad-mindedness, a broad political stance, generous and broad sympathies, a liberal newspaper, tolerant of his opponent's opinions |
| open-minded | ready to entertain new ideas, an open-minded curiosity, open-minded impartiality |
narrow-minded
narrow | lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view, a brilliant but narrow-minded judge, narrow opinions |
close-minded
closed-minded | not ready to receive to new ideas |
petty
small-minded | contemptibly narrow in outlook, petty little comments, disgusted with their small-minded pettiness |
minute
narrow | characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination, a minute inspection of the grounds, a narrow scrutiny, an exact and minute report |
| dirty-minded | having lewd thoughts |
addled
befuddled muddled
muzzy
woolly
wooly
woolly-headed
wooly-minded | confused and vague, used especially of thinking, muddleheaded ideas, your addled little brain, woolly thinking, woolly-headed ideas |
progressive
reformist
reform-minded | favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) |
| narrow-bodied | having a relatively narrow body |
| right-minded | disposed toward or having views based on what is right, respect for law which every right-minded citizen ought to have- Bertrand Russell |
| strong-minded | marked by vigorous independence of thought and judgment |
| fair-minded | of a person, just and impartial, not prejudiced |
| evil-minded | having evil thoughts or intentions |
apt(p)
disposed(p)
given(p)
minded(p) tending(p) | (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward, he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant, I am not minded to answer any questions |
| like-minded | of the same turn of mind |
| narrow | limited in size or scope, the narrow sense of a word |
b exalted
elevated
sublime
grand
high-flown
high-minded
lofty
rarefied
rarified
idealistic
noble-minded b | of high moral or intellectual value, elevated in nature or style, an exalted ideal, argue in terms of high-flown ideals- Oliver Franks, a noble and lofty concept, a grand purpose |
| minded | (used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified, civic-minded, career-minded |
dim-witted
simple
simple-minded | lacking mental capacity and subtlety |
single-minded
resolved | determined, she was firmly resolved to be a doctor, single-minded in his determination to stop smoking |