broad vs narrow
Definitions
adjective
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- broad in scope or content
- lacking subtlety; obvious
- being at a peak or culminating point
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
noun
- slang term for a woman
Examples
The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
Firm words , air shower and broadband are three major key products of the firm net operator.
Definitions
verb
- define clearly
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- become tight or as if tight
- make or become more narrow or restricted
noun
- a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
adjective
- not wide
- lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
- limited in size or scope
- very limited in degree
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
Examples
The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.
And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence.
Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
