adjective
- Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
- usage: "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"
- synonyms: low
- Literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.
- usage: "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow"
- synonyms: low
- Very low in volume.
- usage: "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf"
- Unrefined in character.
- usage: "low comedy"
- synonyms: low
- Used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency.
- synonyms: low, low-pitched
- Of the most contemptible kind.
- usage: "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
- Low or inferior in station or quality.
- usage: "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- No longer sufficient.
- usage: "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted"
- Subdued or brought low in condition or status.
- usage: "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
- synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low
- Filled with melancholy and despondency .
- usage: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
- synonyms: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
- Lowest in rank or importance.
- usage: "last prize"; "in last place"
- synonyms: last, last-place
adverb
- In a low position; near the ground.
- usage: "the branches hung low"
- synonyms: low
- In the lowest position; nearest the ground.
- usage: "the branch with the big peaches on it hung lowest"
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