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▸ adjective: 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.
▸ adjective: (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
▸ adjective: 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.
▸ adjective: Low-cut.
▸ adjective: Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
▸ adjective: Humble, meek, not haughty.
▸ adjective: Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
▸ adjective: Being a nadir, a bottom.
▸ adjective: Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
▸ adjective: Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
▸ adjective: (video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
▸ adjective: Dead. (Compare lay low.)
▸ adjective: Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
▸ adjective: Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
▸ adjective: Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
▸ adjective: (especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
▸ adjective: (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
▸ adjective: (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
▸ adjective: (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
▸ adjective: Quiet; soft; not loud.
▸ adjective: (phonetics) 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.
▸ adjective: (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
▸ adjective: (now rare) Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
▸ adjective: (of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
▸ noun: A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
▸ noun: The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
▸ noun: A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
▸ noun: (meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
▸ noun: The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
▸ noun: (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
▸ noun: (slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
▸ adverb: Close to the ground.
▸ adverb: Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
▸ adverb: With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
▸ adverb: Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
▸ adverb: In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
▸ adverb: In a time approaching our own.
▸ adverb: (astronomy) 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.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To lower; to make low.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To moo.
▸ noun: (countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
▸ verb: (UK, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
▸ noun: (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
▸ noun: (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (rail transport) The station code of Lo Wu in Hong Kong.
▸ verb: Alternative form of 'low [(US, UK, dialectal or colloquial) To allow; to acknowledge or admit.]
▸ noun: (military) Acronym of launch on warning.
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lowly,
miserable,
low-pitched,
contemptible,
dispirited,
small,
depressed,
dejected,
downhearted,
low-spirited,
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