low
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
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games
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
meteorology
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
sciences
sports
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Proto-Germanic *lēgaz
Old Norse lágrbor.
Middle English lāh
English low
From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Saterland Frisian läich (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”), German Low German leeg, leeg' (“low”), Danish lav (“low”), Faroese, Icelandic lágur (“low”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish låg (“low”). More at lie.
Inflected forms:
form: lower
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lower
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: lowest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
pos: adj
examples: standing on low ground
in a low valley, ringed by low hills
a low wall a low shelf
Narrative friezes in low relief were characteristic of Ionic architecture.
gloss: Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
pos: adj
examples: the low countries
Low German
gloss: Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
pos: adj
examples: the pitch (or: the ball) was low
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: a low bow
a low tide
the Mississippi is unusually low right now
It is a little low hearb […]
The men are well-proportioned, rather low than tall, have a brown complexion, and reserved countenance.
"Now you mention her, I do remember the young lady," said Mrs. Grantly; "a dark girl, very low, and without much figure. She seemed to me to keep very much in the background."
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: Again, observe the unmeaningness of the low neck fashion. Our mothers wore low dresses and bare arms all day long; they knew if their shoulders and arms were beautiful they would look as well by daylight as by candlelight; […]
Why do girls wear low dresses?
gloss: Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
pos: adj
examples: low birth
low rank
the low officials of the bureaucracy
low-quality fabric
playing low tricks on them
a person of low mind
Now that was low even for you!
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.
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.
gloss: Humble, meek, not haughty.
pos: adj
examples: God loves an humble soul. It is not our high birth, but our low hearts God delights in.
gloss: Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
pos: adj
examples: She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
The humble soul has low thoughts of his own person; as David, 'I am a worm, and no man.'
gloss: Being a nadir, a bottom.
pos: adj
examples: the low point in her career
Virginia, for example, reached such a low point in her junior year that she briefly considered suicide [...]
gloss: Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
pos: adj
examples: low spirits
As low as I felt, at least I didn't have Hunding's [miserable] job.
gloss: Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
pos: adj
examples: a low pulse
made (or: laid) low by sickness
gloss: Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
pos: adj
gloss: Dead. (Compare lay low.)
pos: adj
examples: And wilt thou weep when I am low?
[L]et the mournful martial music blow; / The last great Englishman is low.
gloss: Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
pos: adj
examples: My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk at even lower prices. The contractors gave a low estimate of the costs. low cholesterol a low voltage wire a low number
Unfortunately, low winds were the rule over the local waters and this craft was no better, if as good, as ordinary sailboats under such conditions.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
gloss: Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
pos: adj
examples: diets low in vitamin A
made from low-carbon steel
gloss: Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
pos: adj
examples: running low on cash
When silica is in low supply other classes of algae dominate the phytoplankton composition.
gloss: Simple in complexity or development.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
In the case of languages spoken by very low races, like the Puris and the Tasmanians, the difficulty of deciding such a point must be very great.
gloss: Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
pos: adj
examples: Among them there was none more low, more pious, more sincere, or more given to interference. To teach Mr. Worth his duty as a parish clergyman was evidently a necessity to such a bishop.
[…] and give a judgment against not only Denison, but the Church's doctrine; and that, it having once been given, we shall not get it reversed; and that the Church of England will seem to be committed to Low doctrine, which […]
gloss: Being near the equator.
pos: adj
examples: the low northern latitudes
gloss: Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
pos: adj
examples: The note was too low for her to sing.
Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.
gloss: Quiet; soft; not loud.
pos: adj
examples: They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.
Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume?
Speak low if you speak love.
gloss: Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
pos: adj
gloss: Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
pos: adj
examples: a low card
gloss: Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The Physicians ordered a low diet, and cooling ptisans in great abundance.
gloss: Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
pos: adj
examples: low gear
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
examples: You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
Economic growth has hit a new low.
Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.
During the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing.
He also called for the US and China to rebuild their fractured relationship, which has plunged to new lows this year, but which Guterres said was “crucial” to climate action.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
examples: Today's low was 32 °F.
A cold one out there today, with lows reaching 33 degrees.
gloss: A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
pos: noun
examples: He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder
gloss: An area of low pressure; a depression.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
gloss: The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
gloss: The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
pos: noun
gloss: A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
pos: noun
tags: slang
usually
examples: He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.
gloss: Close to the ground.
pos: adv
gloss: Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
pos: adv
examples: Can sing both high and low.
gloss: With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
pos: adv
examples: to speak low
[T]he amorous, odorous wind, / Breathes low between the sunset and the moon, […]
gloss: Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
pos: adv
examples: He sold his wheat low.
gloss: In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
pos: adv
examples: But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
gloss: In a time approaching our own.
pos: adv
examples: In that part of the world which was first inhabited, […] even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.
gloss: In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
pos: adv
examples: The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
Synonyms: Synonyms: immoral
abject
scummy
scurvy
Related words: below
Derived words: alow
at a low ebb
Bowland Forest Low
bring low
come low
could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
cutoff low
down-low
down low
extremely low frequency
fly low
friends in low places
hang low
high and low
High and Low Bishopside
highlow
high-low
high-low split
Holme Low
I have low blood pressure
infralow
keep a low profile
Kilburn High and Low
lilly-low
low-alcohol
low-altitude
low and behold
low and slow
Low Angerton
low back
low-background
low-background lead
low-background steel
low back merger
lowball
low-beam
lowbell
low-bell
Low Bentham
lowbie
low block
low blow
low-boiling
low bono
lowboy
low breathing
low bridge
low-brow
lowbrow
low-budget
lowbush
low C
low-cal
low-caloric
low-calorie
low camp
low-carb
low-carber
low-ceilinged
Low Church
low-class
low-code
low comedy
Low Coniscliffe
low-context
low-context culture
low context culture
low-cost
low cost carrier
low-cost carrier
Low Countries
Lowcountry
low-crowned seahorse
lowcut
low decile
low definition
low-density
low-density lipoprotein
Low Dinsdale
low-doc loan
low-dose CT scanning
low-down
lowdown
Low Dutch
low Earth orbit
low-effort syndrome
low-emission
low-end
lower
lowest of the low
low exercise price option
low explosive
low fantasy
low-fat
Low Fell
low fidelity
low-fidelity
low five
low-floor
low Fowler's
low-functioning
low-functioning autism
low gear
Low German
Lowgill
Low Gill
low-grade
low grade
low-grade fever
low-growing
low-hangers
low hangers
lowhanging
low-hanging fruit
low hanging fruit
Low Harrogate
low-hat
low-hearted
lowhearted
low-heartedly
low-heartedness
low-heeled
Low Hill
low hundreds
low-impact
low-income
low-info
low-information
low-IQ
lowish
Low Island
low island
lowkey
low key
low-key
low-keyed
low-keyness
Low Kilburn
lowland
Lowlands
Low Latin
low-level
low-level language
lowlife
low-life
low life
lowlight
low line
lowline
lowling
low-lived
low loader
lowly
low-maintenance
low-masking
low mass
low mass star
low-melting
low milling
lowminded
low-minded
low-mindedly
low-mindedness
Low Moor
low-necked
lowness
low-noise block downconverter
low-octane
low on the totem pole
low-paid
low-pass
lowpass
low-performance
low-pitched
low point
low politics
low post
low post area
low-power
low-powered
low-pressure
low profile
low-profile
low-proof
low-quality
low-rank
low relief
low-rent
low-res
low-residency
low-resolution
Low Rhenish
lowrider
lowriding
low-rise
low rise
low-risk
low road
Low Row
Low Saxon
low season
low-seeded
low side
low-sided
low side window
low-skilled
low-slope roof
low-sock
lowsome
low-speed
low-spirited
low-spiritedness
low spirits
lowstand
low-status
low steel
Low Street
low-studded
low-sulphur
low-sulfur
low-sun
Low Sunday
low-support
low surrogate
low-T
low-tar
low tea
low-tech
low technology
low-temperature
low temperature flexibility
low-tension
lowth
low-thoughted
low thyroid
low tide
Low Town
Low Valleyfield
low-value
Lowveld
low-velocity
low water
low-water mark
low wine
low wire
low-yield
low yo-yo
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
moral low ground
no and low
nonlow
Omaha high-low split
on the down-low
on the low
overlow
pisslow
racism of low expectations
semilow
soft bigotry of low expectations
sublow
superlow
Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby
ultralow
ultra low cost carrier
ultra low frequency
very low mass star
Aleutian Low
all-time low
Arctic low
cold-core low
cold low
Colorado low
Genoa low
heat low
hybrid low
Icelandic Low
Kona low
logic low
polar low
thermal low
upper-level low
wake low
warm-core low
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: laag
lang: Albanian
word: i ulët
lang: Southern Altai
word: јабыс
roman: ǰabïs
lang: Arabic
word: مُنْخَفِض
roman: munḵafiḍ
lang: Arabic
word: واطي
roman: wāṭi
lang: Arabic
word: واطي
roman: wāṭi
lang: Armenian
word: ցածր
roman: cʻacr
lang: Asturian
word: baxu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: alçaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: aşağı
lang: Bashkir
word: түбән
roman: tübən
lang: Bashkir
word: тәпәш
roman: təpəş
lang: Belarusian
word: ні́зкі
roman: nízki
lang: Bengali
word: নিম্ন
roman: nimno
lang: Breton
word: izel
lang: Bulgarian
word: ни́сък
roman: nísǎk
lang: Burmese
word: နိမ့်သေ
roman: nim.se
lang: Catalan
word: baix
lang: Cebuano
word: ubos
lang: Chamicuro
word: c̈hijtawa
lang: Chechen
word: лоха
roman: loxa
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 低
roman: dai¹
lang: Chinese
word: ди
roman: di
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 低
roman: dī
lang: Czech
word: nízký
lang: Danish
word: lav
lang: Dutch
word: laag
lang: Dutch
word: lage
lang: Esperanto
word: malalta
lang: Estonian
word: madal
lang: Evenki
word: нэптэкун
roman: nəptəkun
lang: Extremaduran
word: bahu
lang: Fala
word: baxiu
lang: Faroese
word: lágur
lang: Finnish
word: matala
lang: Finnish
word: alhainen
lang: French
word: bas
lang: Galician
word: baixo
lang: Georgian
word: დაბალი
roman: dabali
lang: German
word: niedrig
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃
roman: hauns
lang: Greek
word: χαμηλός
roman: chamilós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ταπεινός
roman: tapeinós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: χθαμαλός
roman: khthamalós
lang: Hebrew
word: נָמוּךְ
roman: namúkh
lang: Hindi
word: नीचा
roman: nīcā
lang: Hungarian
word: alacsony
lang: Icelandic
word: lágur
lang: Ido
word: basa
lang: Ingrian
word: matala
lang: Ingrian
word: matalain
lang: Ingush
word: лохе
roman: loxe
lang: Interlingua
word: basse
lang: Irish
word: íseal
lang: Italian
word: basso
lang: Japanese
word: 低い
roman: hikui
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: baxu
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: bóxe
lang: Kazakh
word: аласа
roman: alasa
lang: Khmer
word: ទាប
roman: tiəp
lang: Korean
word: 낮다
roman: natda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: نزم
roman: nizm
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: nizm
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аласа
roman: alasa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жапыз
roman: japız
lang: Lak
word: лагьну
roman: lahnu
lang: Lao
word: ຕ່ຳ
roman: tam
lang: Latgalian
word: zams
lang: Latin
word: humilis
lang: Latvian
word: zems
lang: Lithuanian
word: žemas
lang: Lombard
word: bass
lang: Macedonian
word: низок
roman: nizok
lang: Malay
word: rendah
lang: Manchu
word: ᡶᡝᠴᡠᡥᡠᠨ
roman: fecuhun
lang: Maranao
word: mababa'
lang: Nanai
word: нэктэ
roman: nekte
lang: Neapolitan
word: vascio
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lav
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: låg
lang: Occitan
word: bas
lang: Old English
word: niþerlīċ
lang: Persian
word: پست
lang: Plautdietsch
word: läach
lang: Polish
word: niski
lang: Portuguese
word: baixo
lang: Rohingya
word: niso
lang: Romanian
word: jos
lang: Russian
word: ни́зкий
roman: nízkij
lang: Sanskrit
word: अधर
roman: adhara
lang: Sanskrit
word: नीचै
roman: nīcai
lang: Sanskrit
word: निम्न
roman: nimna
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ìosal
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ìseal
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: низак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nizak
lang: Sicilian
word: vasciu
lang: Slovak
word: nízky
lang: Slovene
word: nizek
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: niski
lang: Spanish
word: bajo
lang: Swedish
word: låg
lang: Tagalog
word: mababa
lang: Tajik
word: паст
lang: Thai
word: ต่ำ
roman: dtàm
lang: Turkish
word: alçak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آلچاق
roman: alçak
lang: Turkmen
word: alçak
lang: Ukrainian
word: низьки́й
roman: nyzʹkýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: невисо́кий
roman: nevysókyj
lang: Urdu
word: نیچا
roman: nīcā
lang: Uyghur
word: پەس
roman: pes
lang: Uzbek
word: past
lang: Uzbek
word: boʻyi
lang: Vietnamese
word: thấp
lang: Welsh
word: isel
lang: Yiddish
word: נידעריק
roman: niderik
lang: Armenian
word: ցածրահասակ
roman: cʻacrahasak
lang: Bashkir
word: тәпәш
roman: təpəş
lang: Bengali
word: নিচু
roman: nicu
lang: Bulgarian
word: нисък
roman: nisǎk
lang: Burmese
word: နိမ့်
roman: nim.
lang: Catalan
word: baix
lang: Chamicuro
word: c̈hijtawa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 矮
roman: ǎi
lang: Czech
word: nízký
lang: Danish
word: lav
lang: Finnish
word: matala
lang: French
word: bas
lang: Galician
word: baixo
lang: Greek
word: κοντός
roman: kontós
lang: Irish
word: íseal
lang: Italian
word: basso
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: baxu
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: bóxe
lang: Khmer
word: ទាប
roman: tiəp
lang: Central Kurdish
word: نزم
roman: nizm
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: nizm
lang: Latin
word: humilis
lang: Latvian
word: zems
lang: Old Galician-Portuguese
word: baixo
lang: Persian
word: کوتاه
roman: kutâh
lang: Portuguese
word: baixo
lang: Russian
word: ни́зкий
roman: nízkij
lang: Russian
word: невысо́кий
roman: nevysókij
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ìosal
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ìseal
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: низак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nizak
lang: Swedish
word: kort
lang: Swedish
word: låg
lang: Turkish
word: alçak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آلچاق
roman: alçak
lang: Ukrainian
word: низьки́й
roman: nyzʹkýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: невисо́кий
roman: nevysókyj
lang: Woiwurrung
word: morrt
lang: Albanian
word: nën
lang: Azerbaijani
word: aşağı
lang: Bengali
word: নিম্ন
roman: nimno
lang: Bengali
word: নিচু
roman: nicu
lang: Bulgarian
word: нисък
roman: nisǎk
lang: Finnish
word: alhainen
lang: Māori
word: hāro
lang: Swedish
word: låg
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آلچاق
roman: alçak
lang: Bulgarian
word: нисък
roman: nisǎk
lang: Bulgarian
word: слаб
roman: slab
lang: Danish
word: lav
lang: Finnish
word: alhainen
lang: Finnish
word: matala
lang: French
word: bas
lang: French
word: faible
lang: French
word: petit
lang: German
word: niedrig
lang: German
word: schwach
lang: Khmer
word: ថោក
roman: tʰaok
lang: Latvian
word: zems
lang: Spanish
word: módico
lang: Spanish
word: bajo
lang: Ukrainian
word: низьки́й
roman: nyzʹkýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: невисо́кий
roman: nevysókyj
lang: Azerbaijani
word: alçaq
lang: Finnish
word: alhainen
lang: Finnish
word: ala-arvoinen
lang: French
word: bas
lang: French
word: petit
lang: French
word: abject
lang: German
word: gemein
lang: German
word: niederträchtig
lang: Greek
word: ποταπός
roman: potapós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ταπεινός
roman: tapeinós
lang: Japanese
word: 最低
roman: saitei
lang: Khmer
word: គួរឲ្យស្អប់
roman: kuə aoy s’ɑp
lang: Latvian
word: zemisks
lang: Latvian
word: zems
lang: Portuguese
word: baixo
lang: Portuguese
word: vil
lang: Russian
word: ни́зкий
roman: nízkij
lang: Russian
word: по́длый
roman: pódlyj
lang: Sanskrit
word: अधर
roman: adhara
lang: Spanish
word: bajo
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آلچاق
roman: alçak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: رذیل
roman: rezil
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ذلیل
roman: zelil
lang: Bulgarian
word: слаб
roman: slab
lang: Finnish
word: alhainen
lang: Finnish
word: heikko
lang: French
word: faible
lang: Czech
word: nejnižší úroveň
lang: Czech
word: minimum
lang: Esperanto
word: malaltejo
lang: Finnish
word: pohja
lang: Greek
word: χαμηλό
roman: chamiló
lang: Greek
word: ναδίρ
roman: nadír
lang: Swedish
word: lågvattenmärke