| low | (adjective) being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension | - |
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| (adjective) less than normal in degree or intensity or amount | - |
| (adjective) used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: low-pitched |
| (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated |
| (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, lowly, modest, small |
| (adjective) no longer sufficient | Synonyms: depleted |
| (adjective) very low in volume | Synonyms: low-toned |
| (adjective) unrefined in character | - |
| (noun) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving | Synonyms: first, first gear, low gear |
| (noun) a low level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | Synonyms: depression |
| (adverb) in a low position; near the ground | - |
| (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: moo |
| lowan | (noun) Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds | Synonyms: leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, mallee fowl |
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| lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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| lowborn | (adjective) of humble birth or origins | - |
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| lowboy | (noun) a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs | - |
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| lowbred | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| lowbrow | (adjective) characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes | Synonyms: lowbrowed, uncultivated |
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| (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, philistine |
| lowbrowed | (adjective) characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes | Synonyms: lowbrow, uncultivated |
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| lower | (adjective) the bottom one of two | - |
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| (noun) the lower of two berths | Synonyms: lower berth |
| (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
| lowercase | (adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter |
| lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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| lowered | (adjective) below the surround or below the normal position | - |
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| lowering | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening |
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| (noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
| (noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
| loweringly | (adverb) in a menacing or scowling way | - |
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| lowermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, nethermost |
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| lowest | (adjective) lowest in rank or importance | Synonyms: last-place, last |
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| (adverb) in the lowest position; nearest the ground | - |
| lowland | (adjective) of relatively low or level country | - |
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| (noun) low level country | - |
| lowlife | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| lowliness | (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, obscureness, unimportance |
| lowly | (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, modest, small |
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| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, baseborn, humble |
| (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, menial |
| lowness | (noun) the quality of being low; lacking height | - |
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| (noun) a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.) | - |
| (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness |
| (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowliness |
| lowset | (adjective) lower than average | Synonyms: low-set |
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