Difference between Close-minded and Narrow

What is the difference between Close-minded and Narrow?

Close-minded as an adjective is closed-minded while Narrow as an adjective is having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

Close-minded

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: closed-minded

Narrow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reduce in width or extent; to contract.To get narrower.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.

Example sentence: I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

We hope you now know whether to use Close-minded or Narrow in your sentence.

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