Synonyms

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narrative, n. 1. story, narration, tale, account; recital, chronicle, history; fable, myth, fairy tale, epic, saga; scripture, parable, allegory; anecdote, Inf. yarn, tall tale or story, SI. fish or war story, fiction.
2. novel, romance, novella, short story; drama, play, teleplay, script, episode; adventure story, mystery story, Inf. mystery, detective story, Inf. whodunit, thriller, suspense novel; science fiction, SI. sci-fi, speculative fiction; horse opera, Inf. Western, soap opera, dime novel.
3. story line, plot, plot development; events, episodes, series of incidents.
4. book, volume, publication; opus, work; writing, piece of writing, composition, theme, paper.

narrator, n. relator, recounter, reporter; describer, delineator, outliner; storyteller, taleteller, teller of tales, Inf. yarn spinner or spinner of yarns; anecdotist, raconteur; Film and TV. voice-over,

narrow, adj. 1. slender, thin, slim, spare, slight, gracile, narrow as an arrow, thin as six o'clock, slender as a thread; tapered, drawn out, fine-drawn, attenuated; narrowish, isthmian, narrow-gauged.
2. meager, scant, scanty, sparse, scrimpy, exiguous; pinched, cramped, confining, confined, crowded, incommodious, not roomy, Obs. incapacious, poor; close, near, tight, strait, straitened, close-fitting; diminished, reduced, squeezed.
3. conditioned, qualified, restricted, limited, constricted; exact, precise, nice, delicate, subtle, fine.
4. narrow-minded, prejudiced, illiberal. See - narrowminded.
5. exclusive, exclusory, proscriptive, select, selective; limiting, restricting, defining, restrictive, definitive.
6. meticulous, exacting, scrupulous, conscientious; punctilious, particular, fussy, finicky, strict, rigid, demanding; searching, critical, attentive, scrutinizing.
-v. 7. attenuate, make thin, taper, hone down, pare or pare down; diminish, grow or become smaller or tighter, dwindle, thin, thin down; lessen, reduce, decrease, curtail, contract, constrict, draw in, go in; compress, squeeze, squeeze together; condense, concentrate, consolidate, draw together, pull in.
8. narrow down, qualify, condition, set limits on, Inf. box in; localize, pin down, fix, pinpoint, zero in on, put one's finger on, keep within bounds, keep from spreading, set the limits, limit; confine, hem, hem in, bound, pinch, constrain, tighten, straiten, circumscribe, mark off, stake out; define, determine, specify, simplify, reduce to essentials.
-n. 9. inlet, cove, arm of the sea, reach, creek, estuary, firth, fjord, strait or straits, narrows, euripus, sound; channel, way, passage, passageway, conduit, trough, ditch, trench; ingress, egress; waterway, water gate, watercourse, culvert, gully, gulch, canal, sluice, spillway, irrigation ditch; bottleneck, isthmus, pass, defile, ravine, gorge, arroyo, draw, passage,

narrowing, n. 1. attenuation, thinning, tapering, emaciation; constriction, contraction, compression, shrinkage, shrinking, reduction, curtailment; diminishing, diminishment, dwindling.
2. limitation, limiting, pinpointing, pinning down, qualifying, zeroing in on, specifying,

narrow-minded, adj. 1. narrow, prejudiced, biased, bigoted; warped, twisted, jaundiced, partial, arbitrary, one-sided, opinionated, prepossessed; sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, discriminative, discriminatory; close-minded, closed, intolerant, illiberal, unreasonable; insular, parochial, provincial, Sociol. ethnocentric; limited, confined, constricted, unliberal, uncatholic; little-minded, small-minded, meanminded; blind, myopic, near-sighted, short-sighted, purblind, wearing blinders or blinkers, not able to see beyond the end of one's nose; deaf, unhearing, deaf to reason or new ideas; uncharitable, ungenerous, uncondoning, unfor-bearing, unsympathetic, unindulgent, inhospitable, inconsiderate, disobliging, undetached, undispassionate; snobbish, unfriendly, xenophobic, misanthropic, cynical.