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- (adjective): Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
- (adjective): Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- (adjective): Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
- (adjective): Humble, meek, not haughty.
- (adjective): Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
- (adjective): Being a nadir, a bottom.
- (adjective): Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
- (adjective): Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
- (adjective): Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- (adjective): Simple in complexity or development; (in several set phrases) favoring simplicity; (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
- (adjective): (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
- (adjective): (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
- (adjective): Quiet; soft; not loud.
- (adjective): Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
- (adjective): Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- (adjective): Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
- (adjective): (of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
- (adverb): Close to the ground.
- (adverb): Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
- (adverb): With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
- (adverb): Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
- (adverb): In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- (adverb): In a time approaching our own.
- (adverb): In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
- (verb): To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- (verb): To pull down
- (verb): To reduce the height of
- (verb): To depress as to direction
- (verb): To make less elevated
- (verb): To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- (verb): To bring down; to humble
- (verb): (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (verb): To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (verb): To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- (verb): To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- a low wall a low shelf
- a low bow
- Now that was low even for you!
- She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
- the low point in her career