Nether

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Located beneath or below; lower or under: the nether regions of the earth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lower; under.
  • adj. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
  • ad. Down; downward.
  • ad. Low; low down.
  • v. To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  • v. To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  • v. To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  • v. To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  • v. To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
  • n. Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  • n. A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Downward; down.
  • Lower; under: opposed to upper: as, the nether millstone.
  • . Pertaining to the regions here below; earthly.
  • Pertaining to the lower regions or hell; infernal.
  • To bring low; humiliate.
  • n. A variant of nedder, nadder, adder.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. located below or beneath something else
  • adj. lower
  • adj. dwelling beneath the surface of the earth
  • Equivalent
    low    bottom    infernal   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lower    under    lowe    bottom    subsurface    subterranean   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Heather    altogether    feather    get-together    heather    leather    tether    together    weather    whether   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    upper    subterranean    southeastern    stygian    outermost    cavernous    nethermost    uppermost    northernmost    murky