Low

Adjective

 * 1) In a position comparatively close to the ground.
 * 2) Small in height.
 * 3) Depressed, sad.
 * 4) In an amount nearest to zero, such as low prices.
 * 5) Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
 * Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.
 * 1) Despicable thing to do.
 * Now that was low even for you!

Synonyms

 * (depressed): blue, depressed, down, miserable, sad, unhappy

Antonyms

 * (in a position comparatively close to the ground): high

Related terms

 * Low German
 * Low Latin

Noun

 * 1) Something that is low.
 * You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
 * ''Economic growth has hit a new low.
 * 1) A depressed mood or situation.
 * He is in a low right now
 * 1)  An area of low pressure; a depression.
 * 2) The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
 * Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.

Verb

 * 1)  To moo.
 * The cattle were lowing.

Noun

 * 1)  A flame, fire.

Noun

 * 1) (archaic or obsolete) barrow, mound, tumulus
 * A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains. (Robert Plot, The natural history of Staffordshire, 1686; cited after OED).
 * 1) (Scottish dialectal, archaic) a hill
 * And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low. (Mary Howitt, Ballads and other poems 1847)

Adverbs for Low
inconceivably; extremely; abysmally; exceedingly; uncomfortably; peculiarly; mysteriously; alarmingly; curiously; inconveniently; unnecessarily; unduly; impossibly; terribly; disagreeably; unpleasantly.

Thesaurus
Doric, Hydromatic, a la sourdine, abject, abominable, accented, against, ailing, air mass, alveolar, anticyclone, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrant, articulated, asking price, assimilated, atrocious, automatic transmission, back, bad, barbaric, barbarous, barely audible, baritone, bark, barytone, base, base-minded, baseborn, bass, bawl, bay, bearish prices, beggared, beggarly, bell, bellow, below the salt, bid price, bilabial, black, blamable, blameworthy, blare, blat, blate, bleat, book value, boom, bottoming out, bowed-down, bray, brief, broad, broke, budget, bullish prices, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cacophonous, cacuminal, call, call price, cast down, caterwaul, central, cerebral, cheap, checked, cheesy, close, closing price, clumsy, coarse, cockney, cogwheel, cold front, cold sector, common, commonplace, compact, compendious, con, concise, consonant, consonantal, contemptible, continuant, contralto, cooling off, couchant, crass, criminal, crisis, crouched, crude, crummy, cry, cursory, curt, curtal, curtate, cyclone, damnable, dark, dashed, debased, decline, decrescendo, decurtate, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, degraded, dejected, demeaning, dental, depraved, depressed, depression, depthless, despaired of, despairing, despicable, despondent, desponding, destitute, differential, differential gear, dim, dimly, dirty, disadvantaged, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, discouraged, disenchanted, disgraceful, disgruntled, disgusting, disheartened, disillusioned, dispirited, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, dissimilated, distant, doggerel, done for, donsie, dorsal, down, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, downturn, drooping, droopy, dying, dysphemistic, earthy, easy, economic, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economy, evil, execrable, expanding economy, expansion, expiring, face value, facing death, faint, faintly, fallen, feeble, feebly, feeling low, few, fixed price, flagitious, flagrant, flash price, flat, flurry, flutter, footling, foul, frank, freewheel, front, frugal, fulsome, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, gentle, gently, give tongue, give voice, given up, glide, glossal, glottal, going, graceless, grave, gross, growth, gutter, guttural, half-heard, hard, harsh, heartless, heavy, heinous, high, high growth rate, high-pressure area, hollow, homely, hopeless, howl, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, hushedly, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ignoble, impoverished, improper, impure, in articulo mortis, in bad taste, in extremis, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, in the shade, incapable of life, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorrect, indecorous, indigent, indignant, indisposed, indistinct, inelegant, inexpensive, infamous, infelicitous, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, iniquitous, innocuous, insignificant, instantaneous, intermediate, intonated, isobar, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, issue par, issue price, junior, knavish, knee-high, knocked flat, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, laid low, languishing, lateral, lax, least, less, lesser, light, lingual, liquid, little, low-built, low-down, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-minded, low-pitched, low-pressure area, low-priced, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowered, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, manageable, mangy, market expansion, market price, market value, meager, mean, measly, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, mid, miniature, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, monophthongal, monstrous, moo, moribund, murmured, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naughty, neap, near death, needy, nefarious, negligible, neigh, nether, neutral, nicker, no great shakes, nominal, nominal value, nonclerical, nonviable, obnoxious, occluded front, occlusive, odious, offering price, open, opening price, opposed, opposing, ordinary, outlandish, overdrive, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, paltry, par, par value, parity, peak, peaking, peccant, penurious, pessimistic, petty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, picayune, picayunish, pining, pitch, pitched, plain, plebeian, poky, polar front, poor, posttonic, price, prone, prosperity, prostrate, pule, put price, quotation, quoted price, rack, rally, rank, raw, reasonable, recession, recovery, recumbent, reduced, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, retroflex, reverse, roar, rough, rounded, rude, runty, scabby, scandalous, scarcely heard, screak, scream, screech, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, second rank, second string, secondary, semivowel, sensible, sepulchral, servile, settling price, shabby, shabby-genteel, shallow, shameful, shoddy, short, short and sweet, simple, sinful, sinking, skin-deep, slashed, slipping, slipping away, slowdown, slump, small, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softly, sonant, sordamente, sordid, sordo, sorry, spiritless, squalid, squall, squall line, squat, squatty, squeak, squeal, standard transmission, stated value, stationary front, stick shift, stooped, stopped, stressed, strong, stumpy, sub, subaltern, subaudible, subdued, subduedly, subjacent, subject, submerged, subordinate, subservient, succinct, suicidal, summary, sunk, sunken, superficial, supine, surd, swings, syllabic, synchromesh, synoptic, tasteless, teachable, tense, terminal, thick, third rank, third string, third-estate, throaty, tiny, token, tonal, tonic, transient, transmission, trifling, trivial, troat, turned-off, twangy, ululate, unaccented, unappreciative, unapproving, unclear, uncomplimentary, uncourtly, uncouth, under, underprivileged, undignified, undistinguished, unelevated, uneuphonious, unexpensive, unfavorable, unfelicitous, unforgivable, ungenteel, ungraceful, unhappy, unimportant, unmentionable, unpardonable, unpolished, unpretentious, unrefined, unrounded, unseemly, unspeakable, unstressed, unwashed, unworthy, upturn, velar, vicious, vile, villainous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, vulgar, wail, warm front, weak, weak-voiced, weakly, weary of life, weather map, whicker, whine, whinny, whispered, wicked, wide, wind-shift line, within means, woebegone, woeful, world-weary, worth the money, wretched, wrong, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1
From lowe:, lohe:, lah:, from  lágr:, from, from. Cognate with laich:,  lav:,  lágur:,  leech:,  leeg:, liig:,  laag:,  läge:. More at.

Etymology 2
From lowen:, from  hlowan:, from, from. Cognate with loeien:,  lüejen:,  dialectal lumma:,  calo:,  καλέω:,  clamo:. More at.

Etymology 3
From Icelandic log:/logi: or from logi:. Cognates include Danish lue and German Lohe:.

Alternative forms

 * lowe

Etymology 4
From Old English hláw "burial mound". Obsolete by the 19th century, survives in toponymy as a -low element.

also spelled law.

Adjective

 * Arabic: منخفض
 * Armenian: ցածր
 * Belarusian: нізкі
 * Bulgarian: нисък
 * Catalan: baix, baixa
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 低
 * Czech: nízký
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Guaraní: karape
 * Hindi: नीचा
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: basa
 * Interlingua: basse
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 低い
 * Korean: 낮다
 * Kurdish: nizm,


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zems
 * Lithuanian: žemas
 * Persian: کوتاه
 * Polish: niski
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rohingya: niso
 * Romanian: jos, joasă
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: низак
 * Roman: nizak
 * Sicilian: vasciu, vascia
 * Slovak: nízky
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: низький
 * Urdu: نیچا
 * Vietnamese: thấp


 * Armenian: ցածրահասակ
 * Catalan: baix, baixa
 * Chamicuro:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Kurdish: nizm,
 * Persian: کوتاه


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: низак
 * Roman: nizak
 * Swedish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Kurdish: bêmad


 * Swedish:


 * French:, , , ,


 * French:, ,

Noun

 * French:


 * French:, basse pression


 * French:

Anagrams

 * owl

Verb

 * 1) to allow, permit
 * 2) to justify

Etymology
From allow:.