low

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adj

1. ground-level, low-lying, low-hanging, unelevated; coastal, sea-level; flat, depressed, concave, sunken; nether, under, underground, buried, submerged, underwater, submarine, undersea, deep.

2. short, small, little, stumpy, truncated, squat, knee-high, ankle-high; scrubby, stunted, stubby; crouching, crouched, stooping, bent.

3. shallow, dried up, (both of tides) neap, ebb; reduced, diminished, decreased, lessened, attenuated, abated; drained, expended, consumed, used up, depleted, exhausted, spent, impoverished.

4. feeble, weak, frail, fragile, delicate, weakly, sickly, not strong, unhealthy, Scot. shilpit, ailing; unsteady, infirm, Inf. dotty, shaky, trembling; impotent, powerless, impuissant, helpless; decrepit, invalid, unsound, weakened, enfeebled, debilitated; exhausted, enervated, enervate, languid, languishing, drooping, fading, declining, failing, sinking, expiring, dying.

5. inferior, below par, wanting, unacceptable, inadequate, insufficient; incompetent, not up to par or snuff, unprofessional, amateurish, lightweight; second-rate, mediocre, middling, moderate, so-so.

6. depressed, dejected, disheartened, dispirited, downhearted, downcast, down, Inf. down in the dumps, low-spirited; discouraged, daunted, dismayed, distressed, disappointed, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartsick, Inf. broken up; unhappy, cheerless, glum, gloomy, under a cloud, doleful, Archaic. wan; saddened, sad, blue, forlorn, melancholy, mopey, mopish, long-faced, chapfallen, Inf. down in the mouth, Sl. off one's feed; woebegone, heavy-hearted, disconsolate, sorrowful, mournful, lachrymose, funereal; weighed down, crushed, Inf. broken, Sl. bummed out, despondent, spiritless.

7. humble, poor, plebian, proletarian, earth-born, of low birth, lowborn, low ranking, lowly. See lowly(def.1).

8. wretched, sorry, abject, squalid, destitute, miserable, dismal, abysmal, dreary, Literary. drear; beggarly, scrubby, seedy, sleazy, abased.

9. mean, base, vile, sordid, bad, foul, wrong; depraved, debased, wicked, evil, iniquitous, sinful; corrupt, black-hearted, ignoble, sinister, miscreant, evil-minded; nefarious, flagitious, villainous, heinous, scandalous; disloyal, unfaithful, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious, unprincipled; reprehensible, blameworthy, culpable; scoundrelly, knavish, thievish, roguish, nasty, snide; vicious, invidious, malicious, maleficent; contemptible, mean-spirited, currish, despicable, insufferable, opprobrious, obnoxious.

10. course, vulgar, obscene, rude, crude, gross; lewd, lurid, scurrilous, Fescennine; ribald, bawdy, pornographic, smutty, Sl. raunchy; foul, foul-mouthed, rank, filthy, dirty; indelicate, indecent, unseemly, improper, offensive, disgusting, revolting.

11. soft, subdued, quiet, whispered, murmured, gentle, dulcet; muted, stifled, hushed, inaudible, imperceptible, indistinct, unclear.

12. dead, near death, prostrate, downthrown.

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v

moo, bellow, blare; bleat, blat, baa, bray, bawl.