lower

  • (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