Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Narrow; strait.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Narrow; strait.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Narrow ;strait ;contracted ; notspacious .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin angustus.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word angust.
Examples
-
If, as Tycho proves, the moon be distant from us fifty and sixty semi-diameters of the earth: and as Peter Nonius will have it, the air be so angust, what proportion is there betwixt the other three elements and it?
-
Nevertheless, if the res angust domi get straiter than usual, we are always liable to send our families across the water to spend a season in the practice of economy in some land where it costs less to live.
biocon commented on the word angust
Pronounced an`gǝst
August 7, 2011