adjective
lowest in rank or importance
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Examples
- last prize
- in last place
adverb
in the lowest position
Examples
- nearest the ground
- the branch with the big peaches on it hung lowest
adjective
less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
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Examples
- low prices
- the reservoir is low
adjective
literal meanings
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- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
- low ceilings
- low clouds
- low hills
- the sun is low
- low furniture
- a low bow
adjective
very low in volume
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- a low murmur
- the low-toned murmur of the surf
adjective
unrefined in character
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- low comedy
adjective
used of sounds and voices
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- low in pitch or frequency
adjective
of the most contemptible kind
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- 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
adjective
low or inferior in station or quality
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- a humble cottage
- a lowly parish priest
- a modest man of the people
- small beginnings
adjective
no longer sufficient
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- supplies are low
- our funds are depleted
adjective
subdued or brought low in condition or status
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- brought low
- a broken man
- his broken spirit
adjective
filled with melancholy and despondency
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- 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