Lacking space or area; of limited size or extent; confined.

Scanty or inadequate in spatial capacity; affording little room; narrow. Of bounds, limits: Narrow. Now rare except in too strait.

Narrow, confined.

Limited in extent; not wide or spacious.

Narrow, constricted, confined.

Lacking room or space; strait, confined. rare.

Confined or restricted in space, scope, etc.; small, scanty. Also in extended use: mean, niggardly.

Of a way, space, etc.: narrow, small. Now rare.

Restricted as to space or extent; narrow, drawn in. Cf. strait, adj. 2–4. Now rare or Obsolete.

Contracted, narrowed; insufficiently spacious.

Contracted, compressed; narrow, close. Obsolete.

Of places or the like: Not convenient for shelter, travelling, etc.; not affording good or sufficient accommodation; inconveniently small, narrow…

Not of sufficient size to take in or contain something; not having space or room.

Excessively narrow.

†straitening circumstances (obsolete) = straitened circumstances.

Contracted, strait, narrow; cramping.

Resembling the neck of a bottle. Cf. bottlenecked, adj.

Confined, restricted in space, extent, action, etc.

Of ground: allowing (vehicles) little room for manœuvre. Of a turn, curve, etc.: having a short radius.

Of a place, etc.: confined, restricting; inducing claustrophobia. Also transferred.

Claustrophobic; stifling. rare.