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narrowly

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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Positive
narrowly

Comparative
more narrowly

Superlative
most narrowly

  1. If you do something narrowly, you do it in a limited way.
    The court applied the definition of "worker" extremely narrowly, leaving out many people who work.
  2. If you narrowly miss something, you miss it by a very small distance.
    He narrowly avoided death.
    She narrowly lost the race.