low

• standing on low ground
• in a low valley, ringed by low hills
• a low wall a low shelf

Synonyms: nether underslung

Antonyms: high

1. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.

   • the low countries
   • Low German

   Synonyms: nether underslung

   Antonyms: high

2. (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.

   • the pitch (or: the ball) was low

   Synonyms: nether underslung

   Antonyms: high

• a low bow
• a low tide
• the Mississippi is unusually low right now

Synonyms: short small low scrimp shortsome stubbed stubby stumpy vertically challenged

Antonyms: tall elevated eminent exalted high lofty

1. Low-cut.

   • 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...
   • Why do girls wear low dresses? - 1917, George Amos Dorsey, Young Low, page 195:

   Synonyms: short small low scrimp shortsome stubbed stubby stumpy vertically challenged

   Antonyms: tall elevated eminent exalted high lofty

• low birth
• low rank
• the low officials of the bureaucracy

Synonyms: bad mid sad sorry ass base below par bottom-shelf BTEC bum cheap cheap and nasty cheapshit cheesy chintzy coffee-and crap crappo crappy craptastic crapperific craptabulous craptacular cruddy

• God loves an humble soul. It is not our high birth, but our low hearts God delights in. - 1829, Thomas Watson, Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects:

Synonyms: modest self-effacing abased demure diffident humble humble-hearted low lowly meek mild poor resigned unpretentious verecund

• 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.' - 1826, Ebenezer Erskine, The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Sermon VII, page 103:

Synonyms: contemptuous sneerful belittling blistering contumelious deprecative derogative despising disdainful dismissive disrespectful low scathing scornful slight slighting sniffy withering

• the low point in her career
• Virginia, for example, reached such a low point in her junior year that she briefly considered suicide [...] - 2012, Faith Hartmann, Only a Fool Would Have Believed It in the First Place, →ISBN:

• low spirits
• As low as I felt, at least I didn't have Hunding's [miserable] job. - 2016, Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor, page 33:

Synonyms: sorrowful unhappy atrabiliary atrabilious blitheless dispirited blue bummed out chapfallen cheerless chopfallen crestfallen cut up damp dejected depressed despondent disgruntled disconsolate disheartened dismal doleful dolesome down

• a low pulse
• made (or: laid) low by sickness

Synonyms: anemic frail breakable broken-down damaged debilitated decrepit delicate dickless effete enervated enfeebled exhausted faint feeble flimsy fragile harmed hurt impaired impotent infirm injured languid

1. (video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.

   Synonyms: anemic frail breakable broken-down damaged debilitated decrepit delicate dickless effete enervated enfeebled exhausted faint feeble flimsy fragile harmed hurt impaired impotent infirm injured languid

• And wilt thou weep when I am low? - 1830, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Byron's Poems, page 511:
• [L]et the mournful martial music blow; / The last great Englishman is low. - 1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza III”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 6:

Synonyms: departed six feet under asleep at rest blessed cadaverous clay-cold deceased resting decomposed defunct expired extinct fey gone good inanimate inert kaput killed late lifeless living impaired low

• 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...
• 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. - 1989, Bernard Smith, Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to...
• 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...

Synonyms: reduced devalued low-level compact fun size fun-sized ickle insignificant lit'l little low modest mini petty pint-sized pocket-size slim slight small small-scale undersized wee wurly bastardly

1. Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).

   • diets low in vitamin A
   • made from low-carbon steel

   Synonyms: reduced devalued low-level compact fun size fun-sized ickle insignificant lit'l little low modest mini petty pint-sized pocket-size slim slight small small-scale undersized wee wurly bastardly

2. Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.

   • running low on cash
   • When silica is in low supply other classes of algae dominate the phytoplankton composition. - 2002, V.N. Bashkin, Robert W. Howarth, Modern Biogeochemistry, →ISBN, page 151:

   Synonyms: reduced devalued low-level compact fun size fun-sized ickle insignificant lit'l little low modest mini petty pint-sized pocket-size slim slight small small-scale undersized wee wurly bastardly

• 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. - 1870, Edward Burnett Tylor, Researches Into the Early History of...

• 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. - 1881, Anthony Trollope, Dr....
• […] 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,...

• Can sing both high and low. - c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

• to speak low
• [T]he amorous, odorous wind, / Breathes low between the sunset and the moon, […] - 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Eleanore”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 31:

• He sold his wheat low.

• 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...

• 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. - 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government:...

• The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.

• You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
• Economic growth has hit a new low.
• Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.

1. The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.

   • Today's low was 32 °F.
   • A cold one out there today, with lows reaching 33 degrees.

• He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder

• A deep low is centred over the British Isles.

• Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.

• He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.

• A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains. - 1686, Robert Plot, The natural history of Staffordshire:

• And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low. - 1847, Mary Howitt, Ballads and other poems:

• She was, as one of them expressed himself, in a light low (bright flame) when they observed a king's ship, with her colours up, heave in sight from behind the cape. The guns of the burning vessel discharged themselves...
• A boy fell aff his chair a' in a low, for the discharge had set him on fire […] - 1843, John Wilson, The Noctes Ambrosianœ of "Blackwood"., page 478:
• […] and he was sure to light of a verse blazing wi' a blue brimstone low that set all straight. - 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Mr. Yorke (continued)”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London:...

• I shall only say this, that all the other graces must low the sail to faith, and so it is faith must carry us through, being that last triumphing grace, […] - 1654 (edition of 1762), Andrew Gray, The Works of … Andrew...
• Now to use these as Hypotheseis, as himself in his Word, is pleas'd to low himself to our capacities, is allowable: - 1661 (edition of 1885), Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: … Vanity of Dogmatizing, page 85
• The merry fowks that were the ben, / By this time 'gan to low their strain - 1790, Andrew Shirrefs, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 219:

• The cattle were lowing.
• In peals of thunder now she roars--and now / She gently whimpers like a lowing cow - 1726, Jonathan Swift, “The Lamentations of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig”, in Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Brobdingnag:
• The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. - 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

• Driest wood will eithest low, - 1724 (edition of 1788), Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany, page 23
• They scarcely left to co'er their fuds, To quench their lowan drouth. - 1785, Robert Burns, The Jolly Beggars:
• […] in every crevice; and each individual brick shone and “lowed” with the intense heat. “As I am a Christian man,” thought he, “this is verily the mouth of the pit; and I am lost — lost for ever, for —” - 1870, Edward...