noun
1. a small margin
-
the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory
-
the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote
• Syn: ↑narrow margin, ↑narrowness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑slim, ↑narrow (for: ↑narrowness)
• Hypernyms: ↑margin
2. the property of an attractively thin person
• Syn: ↑slenderness, ↑slightness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑slim, ↑slight (for: ↑slightness), ↑slender (for: ↑slenderness)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.