Narrow
Optional
Optional adjective - Subject to one's freedom of choice.
Narrow and optional are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Narrow" instead an adjective "Optional".
Nearby Words: option, optionally
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The bigger New Orleans crawfish festivals distinguish themselves by being both overly narrow and overly superlative — they will call themselves the "best/biggest/wildest (optional qualifier: Cajun) crawfish boil in the world," but there aren't many crawfish boils outside of New Orleans.
Source: Overly Narrow Superlative
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Optional and Narrow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/narrow/optional
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Optional or Narrow. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/narrow/optional.
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