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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To look angry, sullen, or threatening. See Synonyms at frown.
  • verb-intransitive. To appear dark or threatening, as the sky.
  • n. A threatening, sullen, or angry look.
  • n. A dark and ominous look: the lower of thunderheads.
  • adj. Below another in rank, position, or authority.
  • adj. Physically situated below a similar or comparable thing: a lower shelf.
  • adj. Geology & Archaeology Relating to or being an earlier or older division of the period named.
  • adj. Biology Less advanced in organization or evolutionary development.
  • adj. Denoting the larger and usually more representative house of a bicameral legislature.
  • v. To let, bring, or move down to a lower level.
  • v. To reduce in value, degree, or quality.
  • v. To weaken; undermine: lower one's energy.
  • v. To reduce in standing or respect.
  • verb-intransitive. To move down: Her hand lowered.
  • verb-intransitive. To become less; diminish: The temperature has lowered gradually this month.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. comparative form of low: more low
  • ad. comparative form of low: more low
  • v. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
  • v. to pull down
  • v. To reduce the height of
  • v. To depress as to direction
  • v. To make less elevated
  • v. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
  • v. To bring down; to humble
  • v. (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
  • v. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
  • v. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
  • v. To decrease in value, amount, etc.
  • v. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
  • v. To frown; to look sullen.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Compar. of low, a.
  • v. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; ; sometimes, to pull down.
  • v. To reduce the height of
  • v. To depress as to direction; ; to make less elevated as to object.
  • v. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
  • v. To bring down; to humble.
  • v. To reduce in value, amount, etc.
  • verb-intransitive. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease.
  • verb-intransitive. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
  • verb-intransitive. To frown; to look sullen.
  • n. Cloudiness; gloominess.
  • n. A frowning; sullenness.
  • adj. relating to small or noncapital letters which were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To frown; scowl; look sullen; watch in sullen silence.
  • To appear dark or gloomy; be clouded; threaten a storm.
  • To look bad; appear in bad condition.
  • To lurk; crouch; skulk.
  • To strike, as a clock, with a low prolonged sound; toll the curfew.
  • n. A frown; scowl; frowning; sullenness.
  • n. Cloudiness; gloominess.
  • To cause to descend; let down; take or bring down: as, to lower the sail of a ship; to lower cargo into the hold.
  • To reduce or bring down, as in height, amount, value, estimation, condition, degree, etc.; make low or lower: as, to lower a wall (by removing a part of the top); to lower the water in a canal (by allowing some to run off); to lower the temperature of a room or the quality of goods; to lower the point of a spear or the muzzle of a gun; to lower prices or the rate of interest.
  • To bring down in spirit; humble; humiliate: as, to lower one's pride; to lower one in the estimation of others.
  • In relief-engraving
  • to scrape or cut away, as the surface of a block, in such manner as to leave it highest in the middle; or
  • to depress, as any part of the surface which it is desired shall print lightly from being exposed to a diminished pressure.
  • In music, to change from a high to a low pitch; specifically, in musical notation, to depress; flat: said of changing the significance of a staff-degree or of a note on such a degree by attaching a flat to it either in the signature or as an accidental.
  • To fall; sink; grow less; become lower in any way.
  • n. Hire; reward.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause to drop or sink
  • v. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
  • v. set lower
  • v. move something or somebody to a lower position
  • v. make lower or quieter
  • n. the lower of two berths
  • Antonym
    higher   
    Verb Form
    lowed    lowered    lowering    lowers    lowing    lows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter    minify    lessen    decrease    berth    built in bed    bunk   
    Cross Reference
    abate    degrade    depreciate    diminish    abase    to lower the flag   
    Variant
    low   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    humble    fall    sink    diminish    decrease    frown    cloudiness    gloominess    frowning    sullenness   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    blower    dougher    goer    grower    knower    mower    rower    slower    sower    stower   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    diminution    weaken    lessen    widen    loosen    raise    tighten    lowing    readjustment    erosion