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What is the adjective for narrowing?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb narrow which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

narrow
  1. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
  2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  3. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
  4. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
  5. Having a small margin or degree.
  6. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
  7. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  8. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  9. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
  10. Synonyms:
      11. tight, close, limited, restricted, confined, compact, cramped, confining, constricted, congested, meagre, squeezed, choked, circumscribed, compressed, incapacious, pinched, scanty, small, bounded, defined, definite, determinate, exiguous, finite, jammed, measured, scant, spare, sparse, tapered, tapering, tiny, contracted, incommodious, meager, narrowing, near, strait, straitened, fixed, paltry, pent, shrunken, taper, narrow-gauged, inadequate, poky, minimal, slender … more
  11. Examples:
      12. “He manages to wedge the phone in between two fingers and attempts to lift it out of the narrow space.”
      “A table with narrow legs can still be stable if there are crossbars to add support.”
      “Pundits say that the offering is, within its narrow scope, useful and likely to improve and expand quickly.”
narrowhead
  1. (zoology) Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.
narrowfield
  1. Having a narrow field of view
narrower
  1. comparative form of narrow: more narrow
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tighter, closer, meagrer, scantier, smaller, scanter, sparer, sparser, tinier, meagerer, nearer, straiter, paltrier, more limited, more restricted, more compact, more cramped, more choked, more compressed, more incapacious, more bounded, more defined, more definite, more exiguous, more finite, more measured, more tapered, more contracted, more incommodious, more straitened, more fixed, more shrunken, thinner, slenderer, slimmer, skinnier, finer, more needlelike, more threadlike, more select, stricter, truer, clearer, harder, more precise, more literal … more
narrowish
  1. Somewhat narrow.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Its 27-cm length is pretty standard, and the front and middle of the saddle feel like any other narrowish racing perch.”
      “Another of the region's seats, with a narrowish 6,389 Labour majority over Tories last time, declares at about 3.30 am.”
      “Finally we got into the reception room which was a much larger space but a long narrowish room with the dance floor in the middle.”
narrowest
  1. superlative form of narrow: most narrow
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tightest, closest, meagrest, scantiest, smallest, scantest, sparest, sparsest, tiniest, meagerest, nearest, straitest, paltriest, most limited, most restricted, most compact, most cramped, most choked, most compressed, most incapacious, most bounded, most defined, most definite, most exiguous, most finite, most measured, most tapered, most contracted, most incommodious, most straitened, most fixed, most shrunken, thinnest, slenderest, slimmest, skinniest, finest, most needlelike, most threadlike, most select, strictest, truest, clearest, hardest, most precise, most literal … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Rather, he is ensuring that the principle of one-man-one-vote holds good, even if it comes down to the narrowest of margins.”
      “From the narrowest of angles he took aim at an empty net but saw his shot rebound from the near post.”
      “After all its just a thrown together bunch of experiences with the narrowest of pretenses holding it all together.”
narrowed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of narrow
  2. Synonyms:
      3. constricted, contracted, diminished, tapered, choked, compacted, compressed, condensed, cramped, reduced, restricted, shrank, shrunk, shrunken, strangled, circumscribed, clenched, collapsed, confined, constringed, decreased, focused, focussed, limited, pinched, restrained, straitened, strangulated, tautened, tensed, tightened, astringed, tucked, got smaller, gotten smaller, made narrower, made smaller, became narrower, become narrower, became smaller, become smaller, drew in, drawn in, got narrower, got thinner, gotten thinner, narrowed down, drew together, drawn together … more
narrowing
  1. present participle of narrow
  2. Synonyms:
      3. constricting, contracting, diminishing, tapering, choking, compacting, compressing, condensing, cramping, reducing, restricting, shrinking, strangling, circumscribing, clenching, collapsing, confining, constringing, decreasing, focusing, focussing, limiting, pinching, restraining, straitening, strangulating, tautening, tensing, tightening, astringing, tucking, getting smaller, making narrower, making smaller, becoming narrower, becoming smaller, drawing in, getting narrower, getting thinner, narrowing down, drawing together … more
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