狭い|せまいsemai[2]nakadaka (mid-high)

1. i-adjectivenarrow; confined; small; cramped
   この部屋へやは私わたしたちにとって狭せますぎる。↗

   This room is too small for us.
2. i-adjectivelimited; narrow-minded; confining
   彼女かのじょは狭せまい範囲はんいでしか物ものが見みえない。↗

   Her viewpoint is limited.

• Synonym手狭てぜまNeutralNeutral. Says a room or place is too small for living or working needs, as in 「家族が増えて手狭になる」.
• Synonym狭隘きょうあいWrittenWritten/formal prose. For narrow roads or, figuratively, a narrow mind, as in 「狭隘な見方」.
• SynonymせせこましいCasualColloquial. Cramped, tight spaces, or a petty, small-minded person who fusses over trifles; carries a tone of dissatisfaction.
• Synonym狭小きょうしょうWrittenWritten/formal prose. Small and cramped, used mostly of housing and land, as in 「狭小住宅」.
• Related狭窄きょうさくWrittenWritten/formal prose. Narrowing of something, chiefly in medical contexts, as in 「視野狭窄」; can also describe narrow roads.
• Related所狭いところせまいCasualColloquial. A place too crowded or cramped; often in 「所狭しと並ぶ」, describing things lined up so densely they fill the space.
• Antonym広いひろいNeutralNeutral. The direct antonym: spacious or wide in area, and broad in scope or range.
• Antonym広大なWrittenWritten/formal prose. The antonym for sheer vastness — immensely broad, said of land, the universe and the like.

Default to 「狭い」 for anything narrow. Use 「手狭」 when a place is too small for your needs, 「狭隘」 for a narrow mind, 「狭窄」 for medical narrowing, and 「せせこましい」 for cramped spaces or petty people. The opposite is 「広い」; 「広大な」 is for vast land or space.

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1. 面積めんせきが小ちいさい。狭小きょうしょうな。
2. 平面図へいめんずにおいて進行しんこう方向ほうこう等とうに対たいして直行ちょっこうする方向ほうこう、すなわち幅はばが小ちいさい。狭隘きょうあいな。
3. 見識けんしきや交際こうさいの範囲はんいが限かぎられている。
4. 小ちいさなことで怒おこったり責せめたりするさま。心こころに受容力じゅようりょくがない。狭量きょうりょうな。