low

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

lower

Superlative

lowest

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

lows

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.

   • Narrative friezes in low relief were characteristic of Ionic architecture.

2. 2.Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.

   • Why do girls wear low dresses?
   • The men are well-proportioned, rather low than tall, have a brown complexion, and reserved countenance.
   • Just a month ago, data showed Antarctica would set a record this year for lowest sea-ice extent, the area of ocean covered by sea ice around the continent.

3. 3.Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)

   • Now that was low even for you!
   • Low-Sunday, is the Sunday after Easter, and is so call'd, because it is a low Festival in Comparison of that Day whereon Christ arose from Death to Life again.
   • Therefore they must have been common in the 16th century also among the folk first of all not as a high festival food but rather as a low festival and Sunday food, if our experience proves accurate.

4. 4.Humble, meek, not haughty.

   • God loves an humble soul. It is not our high birth, but our low hearts God delights in.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.

2. 2.The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.

   • Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.

3. 3.A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).

   • Economic growth has hit a new low.
   • Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.
   • You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.

4. 4.An area of low pressure; a depression.(informal)

   • A deep low is centred over the British Isles.

Overall

Very common· #410

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Common

Literature

Uncommon

Antonyms

• high

Word family

• lower