What are the opposite words for narrow?
Narrow, as a term, represents the idea of less space, less scope, and less freedom of movement. However, there are specific antonyms or words that represent concepts opposite in meaning to narrow. The first antonym for narrow is broad that suggests a vast expanse of space, comprehensive coverage, and more freedom of movement. Another opposite of narrow is ample that denotes a sufficient quantity of space, resources, or time. Yet another antonym for narrow is spacious that conveys the idea of an extensive or commodious area, while the word wide implies having great breadth or depth of something. One can also use the term expansive, which suggests vastness, width, or openness in any aspect of life.
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- increase
- change
- expand
- extend
- amplify
- broaden
- enlarge
- open up
- develop
- dilate
- grow
- snowball
- spread
- widen
- increase in size or effect
- stretch
- extend, supplement
- cultivate, prosper
- stretch, widen
- make or grow bigger; increase
- extend, augment
- make larger, longer
- become larger, evolve
- add or grow
- reduce, simplify
- open or fan out
- extend, elongate
- broad
- overall
- deep
- large
- important
- thick
- universal
- extended
- lengthened
- ample
- catholic
- comprehensive
- eclectic
- expansive
- far-reaching
- full
- inclusive
- pervasive
- wide-ranging
- widespread
- cavernous
- encyclopedic
- exhaustive
- extensive
- full-scale
- general
- liberal
- massive
- profound
- spacious
- sweeping
- thorough
- wholesale
- wide
- all
- vast
- more than necessary, sufficient
- huge
- immense
- wide physically
- all-embracing, general
- hollow and large
- extending very far, usually down
- comprehensive, general
- all-inclusive, complete
- broad, comprehensive
- far-reaching, thorough
- total, all-out
- extremely large
- valuable, substantial
- all-encompassing, all-embracing
- big, abundant
- confined, restricted
- intolerant, small-minded
- cheap, stingy
- intense; emotional
- having ample space
- extensive, expansive
- deep, bulky
- worldwide, entire
- very large; wide in range
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- increase
- change
-
expand
- fan out,
- puff up,
- stretch out,
- tack on,
- piggybacking,
- outspreading,
- open out,
- bulk up,
- bulked up,
- bulking up,
- bulks up,
- de tail,
- de tailing,
- de tails,
- de-tail,
- de-tailing,
- de-tails,
- fanned out,
- fanning out,
- fans out,
- opened out,
- opening out,
- opens out,
- out spreading,
- out spreads,
- out-spreading,
- out-spreads,
- outspreads,
- piggybacked,
- puffing up,
- puffs up,
- spread out,
- spreads out,
- stretching out,
- tacked on,
- tacking on,
- tacks on.
-
extend
- crane,
- drag one's feet,
- let out,
- spin out,
- string out,
- Lasted,
- Mantling,
- run on,
- Craned,
- Craning,
- cranes,
- spun out,
- drag feet,
- drag one feet,
- drag ones feet,
- dragged feet,
- dragged one feet,
- dragged one's feet,
- dragged ones feet,
- dragging feet,
- dragging one feet,
- dragging one's feet,
- dragging ones feet,
- drags feet,
- drags one feet,
- drags one's feet,
- drags ones feet,
- ex tend,
- ex tending,
- ex tends,
- ex-tend,
- ex-tending,
- ex-tends,
- lets out,
- letted out,
- letting out,
- ran on,
- runs on,
- span out,
- spins out,
- stringing out,
- strings out,
- strung out.
- amplify
- broaden
-
enlarge
- diffused,
- diffusing,
- slap on,
- Bulked,
- Bulking,
- diffuses,
- upsurging,
- gave details,
- give details,
- gives details,
- giving details,
- grew larger,
- grow larger,
- growing larger,
- grows larger,
- jazzes up,
- jazzing up,
- made larger,
- make larger,
- makes larger,
- multi plying,
- multi-plied,
- multi-plying,
- slapped on,
- slapping on,
- up surge,
- up surged,
- up surges,
- up surging,
- up-surge,
- up-surges,
- up-surging,
- upsurged.
- open up
-
develop
- uncoil,
- uncoiled,
- untwist,
- untwisted,
- Enroot,
- Evolved,
- enriches,
- untwisting,
- growing up,
- be fall,
- be fallen,
- be falling,
- be falls,
- be fell,
- be tide,
- be tided,
- be tides,
- be tiding,
- be-fall,
- be-fallen,
- be-falling,
- be-falls,
- be-fell,
- be-tide,
- be-tided,
- be-tides,
- be-tiding,
- dis close,
- dis closed,
- dis closes,
- dis closing,
- dis entangle,
- dis entangled,
- dis entangles,
- dis entangling,
- dis-close,
- dis-closed,
- dis-closes,
- dis-closing,
- dis-entangle,
- dis-entangled,
- dis-entangles,
- dis-entangling,
- enroots,
- ex plain,
- ex plained,
- ex plaining,
- ex plains,
- ex plicate,
- ex plicated,
- ex plicates,
- ex plicating,
- ex-plain,
- ex-plained,
- ex-plaining,
- ex-plains,
- ex-plicate,
- ex-plicated,
- ex-plicates,
- ex-plicating,
- fore tell,
- fore telling,
- fore tells,
- fore told,
- fore-tell,
- fore-telling,
- fore-tells,
- fore-told,
- grew up,
- grows up,
- in vest,
- in vested,
- in vests,
- in-vest,
- in-vested,
- in-vesting,
- in-vests,
- pro duce,
- pro duces,
- pro moting,
- pro-duces,
- pro-mote,
- pro-motes,
- pro-moting,
- re ached,
- re aching,
- re counted,
- re counting,
- re counts,
- re fine,
- re fined,
- re fines,
- re-ached,
- re-aching,
- re-counted,
- re-counting,
- re-counts,
- re-fine,
- re-fines,
- re-fining,
- trans pire,
- trans-pire,
- un coil,
- un coiled,
- un coiling,
- un coils,
- un cover,
- un covered,
- un covering,
- un covers,
- un fold,
- un folding,
- un folds,
- un furling,
- un ravel,
- un raveled,
- un raveling,
- un ravelled,
- un ravelling,
- un ravels,
- un roll,
- un rolled,
- un rolling,
- un rolls,
- un twist,
- un twisting,
- un twists,
- un wind,
- un winding,
- un winds,
- un wound,
- un-coil,
- un-coiled,
- un-coiling,
- un-coils,
- un-cover,
- un-covering,
- un-covers,
- un-fold,
- un-folding,
- un-folds,
- un-furling,
- un-ravel,
- un-raveled,
- un-raveling,
- un-ravelled,
- un-ravelling,
- un-ravels,
- un-roll,
- un-rolled,
- un-rolling,
- un-rolls,
- un-twist,
- un-twisted,
- un-twisting,
- un-twists,
- un-winding,
- un-winds,
- un-wound,
- uncoiling,
- uncoils,
- untwists.
-
dilate
- puff out,
- spin off,
- am profuse,
- am prolix,
- are profuse,
- are prolix,
- art profuse,
- art prolix,
- be profuse,
- be prolix,
- being profuse,
- being prolix,
- dis tend,
- dis tending,
- dis tends,
- dis-tend,
- dis-tending,
- dis-tends,
- ex pound,
- ex pounded,
- ex pounding,
- ex pounds,
- ex-pound,
- ex-pounded,
- ex-pounding,
- ex-pounds,
- is profuse,
- is prolix,
- pro long,
- pro longing,
- pro longs,
- pro tract,
- pro tracts,
- pro-long,
- pro-longing,
- pro-longs,
- pro-tract,
- pro-tracts,
- puffed out,
- puffing out,
- puffs out,
- span off,
- spinning off,
- spins off,
- spun off,
- was profuse,
- was prolix,
- wast prolix,
- were profuse,
- were prolix,
- wert profuse,
- wert prolix.
-
grow
- branch out,
- burst forth,
- pop up,
- spring up,
- be came,
- be come,
- be comes,
- be coming,
- be-came,
- be-come,
- be-comes,
- be-coming,
- bursted forth,
- bursting forth,
- bursts forth,
- came be,
- came to be,
- come be,
- come to be,
- comes be,
- comes to be,
- coming be,
- coming to be,
- gat bigger,
- gat taller,
- get bigger,
- get taller,
- gets bigger,
- gets taller,
- getting bigger,
- getting taller,
- got bigger,
- got taller,
- gotten bigger,
- gotten taller,
- popped up,
- popping up,
- pops up,
- sprang up,
- springs up.
- snowball
-
spread
- even out,
- roll out,
- rolled out,
- am displayed,
- am distributed,
- are displayed,
- are distributed,
- be displayed,
- be distributed,
- being displayed,
- being distributed,
- dis perse,
- dis-perse,
- evened out,
- evening out,
- evens out,
- is displayed,
- is distributed,
- out stretch,
- out stretches,
- out stretching,
- out-stretch,
- out-stretches,
- out-stretching,
- over laid,
- over laying,
- over lays,
- over-laid,
- over-lay,
- over-laying,
- over-lays,
- pre pare,
- pre pared,
- pre pares,
- pre paring,
- pre-pare,
- pre-pared,
- pre-paring,
- rolling out,
- rolls out,
- was displayed,
- was distributed,
- wast displayed,
- wast distributed,
- were displayed,
- were distributed,
- wert displayed,
- wert distributed.
- widen
- increase in size or effect
-
stretch
- shoot up,
- shooting up,
- lie out,
- lied out,
- lies out,
- made taut,
- made tense,
- make tense,
- makes taut,
- makes tense,
- making taut,
- making tense,
- over lap,
- over lapping,
- over-lap,
- over-lapped,
- over-lapping,
- over-laps,
- re cline,
- re clines,
- re pose,
- re posed,
- re-cline,
- re-clines,
- re-pose,
- re-posed,
- shoots up.
- extend, supplement
- cultivate, prosper
- stretch, widen
- make or grow bigger; increase
- extend, augment
- make larger, longer
-
become larger, evolve
- grow.
- add or grow
- reduce, simplify
- open or fan out
- extend, elongate
-
broad
- broad,
- all-embracing,
- general,
- immense,
- nonspecific,
- outspread,
- splay,
- undisguised,
- voluminous,
- wide-ranging,
- Latitudinous,
- undetailed,
- all embracing,
- all inclusive,
- allembracing,
- allinclusive,
- far flung,
- farflung,
- in decent,
- in delicate,
- in-decent,
- in-delicate,
- more all embracing,
- more all-embracing,
- more latitudinous,
- more nonspecific,
- more outspread,
- more outstretched,
- more scopic,
- more undetailed,
- more undisguised,
- more wide ranging,
- more wide-ranging,
- more wideranging,
- most all embracing,
- most all-embracing,
- most allembracing,
- most latitudinous,
- most nonspecific,
- most outspread,
- most outstretched,
- most scopic,
- most undetailed,
- most undisguised,
- most wide ranging,
- most wide-ranging,
- most wideranging,
- non specific,
- non-specific,
- off color,
- offcolor,
- open minded,
- openminded,
- out spread,
- out-spread,
- out-stretched,
- scopic,
- splayer,
- splayest,
- un biased,
- un detailed,
- un disguised,
- un equivocal,
- un limited,
- un refined,
- un-detailed,
- un-disguised,
- un-equivocal,
- un-limited,
- un-refined,
- un-restrained,
- wide ranging,
- wideranging.
-
overall
- all over,
- everyplace,
- in the long run,
- on the whole,
- predominantly,
- generally speaking,
- in long run,
- on whole,
- pre dominantly,
- pre-dominantly,
- long-range,
- long-term,
- overall,
- long range,
- longrange,
- longterm,
- more long range,
- more long term,
- more long-range,
- more long-term,
- more longrange,
- more longterm,
- most long range,
- most long term,
- most long-range,
- most long-term,
- most longrange,
- most longterm.
-
deep
- fathomless,
- subaqueous,
- under ground,
- be neath,
- be-neath,
- deep seated,
- deepseated,
- downreaching,
- in most,
- more below,
- more downreaching,
- more fathomless,
- more subaqueous,
- more submarine,
- more submerged,
- most below,
- most beneath,
- most downreaching,
- most fathomless,
- most subaqueous,
- most submarine,
- most submerged,
- most sunk,
- sub marine,
- sub-aqueous,
- sub-marine,
- sub-merged,
- un fathomable.
- large
-
important
- front page,
- of note,
- bigleague,
- fore most,
- fore-most,
- front-page,
- frontpage,
- mattering much,
- more esteemed,
- more front page,
- more front-page,
- more frontpage,
- more something,
- most esteemed,
- most front page,
- most front-page,
- most frontpage,
- most something,
- of substance,
- para mount,
- para-mount,
- re levant,
- re-levant.
- thick
- universal
-
extended
- stretched out,
- drawn out,
- drawnout,
- ex tended,
- ex-tended,
- more continued,
- more elongate,
- more expanded,
- more spread,
- more unfolded,
- more unfurled,
- most continued,
- most elongate,
- most expanded,
- most spread,
- most unfolded,
- most unfurled,
- pro-longed,
- un folded,
- un furled,
- un-folded,
- un-furled,
- very long.
- lengthened
- ample
-
catholic
- global,
- unbigoted,
- unsectarian,
- whole,
- worldwide,
- World-wide,
- broadminded,
- broad minded,
- in determinate,
- in-determinate,
- large scale,
- largescale,
- more unbigoted,
- more unsectarian,
- more world wide,
- more world-wide,
- most unbigoted,
- most unsectarian,
- most world wide,
- most world-wide,
- un bigoted,
- un prejudiced,
- un sectarian,
- un-bigoted,
- un-prejudiced,
- un-sectarian,
- world wide.
-
comprehensive
- encyclopedic,
- in depth,
- whole shebang,
- across the board,
- wall-to-wall,
- the works,
- across board,
- dis cursive,
- dis-cursive,
- in finite,
- in-finite,
- lock stock and barrel,
- lock stock barrel,
- more comprising,
- more containing,
- more synoptic,
- more wall to wall,
- more wall-to-wall,
- most comprising,
- most containing,
- most encircling,
- most synoptic,
- most umbrella,
- most wall to wall,
- most wall-to-wall,
- of great scope,
- the big picture,
- workser,
- worksest.
- eclectic
-
expansive
- expanding,
- stretching,
- unrepressed,
- unsuppressed,
- dilatant,
- more dilatant,
- more expanding,
- more scopious,
- more stretching,
- more unrepressed,
- more unsuppressed,
- most dilatant,
- most scopious,
- most stretching,
- most unrepressed,
- most unsuppressed,
- out going,
- out goingest,
- out-going,
- out-goinger,
- out-goingest,
- scopious,
- un constrained,
- un inhibited,
- un repressed,
- un suppressed,
- un-inhibited,
- un-repressed,
- un-reserved,
- un-suppressed.
- far-reaching
- full
- inclusive
- pervasive
- wide-ranging
- widespread
-
cavernous
- alveolate,
- chambered,
- deep-set,
- reverberant,
- chasmal,
- curved inward,
- deep set,
- deepset,
- more alveolate,
- more chambered,
- more chasmal,
- more deep set,
- more deep-set,
- more deepset,
- more echoing,
- more reverberant,
- more socketed,
- most chambered,
- most chasmal,
- most deep set,
- most deep-set,
- most deepset,
- most echoing,
- most reverberant,
- most yawning,
- re sonant,
- re-sonant.
- encyclopedic
- exhaustive
- extensive
- full-scale
- general
-
liberal
- free-and-easy,
- humanistic,
- latitudinarian,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- reformist,
- aplenty,
- avant garde,
- avantgarde,
- dime dozen,
- high minded,
- highminded,
- more aplenty,
- more free and easy,
- more free-and-easy,
- more humanistic,
- more latitudinarian,
- more libertarian,
- more reformist,
- more soft-touch,
- more softtouch,
- most aplenty,
- most free-and-easy,
- most humanistic,
- most latitudinarian,
- most libertarian,
- most reformist,
- most soft touch,
- most softtouch,
- soft-touch,
- un conventional,
- un selfish,
- un stinging,
- un-conventional,
- un-selfish,
- un-stinging,
- under standing,
- under-standing,
- unstinging.
- massive
- profound
- spacious
- sweeping
-
thorough
- full.
- wholesale
- wide
-
all
- wide.
-
vast
- spread-out,
- neverending,
- more forever,
- more spread out,
- more spread-out,
- more spreadout,
- more stretched out,
- more stretched-out,
- more stretchedout,
- most forever,
- most spread out,
- most spread-out,
- most spreadout,
- most stretched out,
- most stretched-out,
- most stretchedout,
- never ending,
- spreadout,
- stretched-out,
- stretchedout.
- more than necessary, sufficient
- huge
- immense
- wide physically
- all-embracing, general
- hollow and large
-
extending very far, usually down
- deep.
- comprehensive, general
- all-inclusive, complete
- broad, comprehensive
- far-reaching, thorough
- total, all-out
-
extremely large
- huge.
- valuable, substantial
- all-encompassing, all-embracing
- big, abundant
- confined, restricted
- intolerant, small-minded
- cheap, stingy
- intense; emotional
- having ample space
- extensive, expansive
- deep, bulky
- worldwide, entire
-
very large; wide in range
- vast.
-
Other relevant words
- overflowing,
- wide-screen,
- all-out,
- enough,
- bottomless,
- bumper,
- careless,
- cosmopolitan,
- endless,
- enlarged,
- epic,
- expanded,
- extreme,
- freethinking,
- general,
- goodly,
- grandiose,
- handsome,
- hefty,
- hulking,
- impartial,
- incalculable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminate,
- inestimable,
- inexhaustible,
- jumbo,
- king-size,
- largish,
- major,
- nebulous,
- nonpartisan,
- objective,
- oversize,
- progressive,
- radical,
- respectable,
- sizable,
- squat,
- stocky,
- stumpy,
- substantial,
- super,
- thickset,
- unbiased,
- undefined,
- unprejudiced,
- unqualified,
- unreserved,
- vague,
- voluminous,
- whacking,
- whole,
- Dimensionless,
- Thickish,
- Widish,
- escalated,
- plenitudinous.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
wreathes
- Antonyms:
- uncover, unwrap, stay.
