Meaning & use
Narrowest
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Having the smallest width; the superlative form of "narrow."
See it in a sentence
The hikers squeezed through the narrowest part of the canyon, barely a shoulder's width across.
The election was decided by the narrowest of margins, just twelve votes.
A note on using this word
"By the narrowest margin" is a common idiom describing an extremely close outcome in a vote, race, or contest.
Words with a similar meaning
thinnesttightest
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Words with an opposite meaning
widest
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