Definition of lower

"lower" in the noun sense

1. lower berth, lower

the lower of two berths

"lower" in the verb sense

1. lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down

move something or somebody to a lower position

"take down the vase from the shelf"

2. lower, lour

set lower

"lower a rating"

"lower expectations"

3. turn down, lower, lour

make lower or quieter

"turn down the volume of a radio"

4. lower, depress

cause to drop or sink

"The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"

5. frown, glower, lour, lower

look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

"lower" in the adjective sense

1. low

less than normal in degree or intensity or amount

"low prices"

"the reservoir is low"

2. low

literal meanings being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension

"low ceilings"

"low clouds"

"low hills"

"the sun is low"

"low furniture"

"a low bow"

3. low, low-toned

very low in volume

"a low murmur"

"the low-toned murmur of the surf"

4. low

unrefined in character

"low comedy"

5. low, low-pitched

used of sounds and voices low in pitch or frequency

6. abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy

of the most contemptible kind

"abject cowardice"

"a low stunt to pull"

"a low-down sneak"

"his miserable treatment of his family"

"You miserable skunk!"

"a scummy rabble"

"a scurvy trick"

7. humble, low, lowly, modest, small

low or inferior in station or quality

"a humble cottage"

"a lowly parish priest"

"a modest man of the people"

"small beginnings"

8. depleted, low

no longer sufficient

"supplies are low"

"our funds are depleted"

9. broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low

subdued or brought low in condition or status

"brought low"

"a broken man"

"his broken spirit"

10. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited

filled with melancholy and despondency

"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"

"gloomy predictions"

"a gloomy silence"

"took a grim view of the economy"

"the darkening mood"

"lonely and blue in a strange city"

"depressed by the loss of his job"

"a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"

"downcast after his defeat"

"feeling discouraged and downhearted"

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Quotations for lower

He that is down can fall no lower. [ Butler ]

Caution is the lower story of prudence. [ Carlyle ]

The higher the hill, the lower the grass. [ Proverb ]

When the searching eye of heaven is hid
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world,
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen,
In murthers and in outrage boldly here. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that lies upon the ground can fall no lower. [ Proverb ]

And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower -
Its flash is still the same. [ Lydia M. Child ]

Myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide;
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. [ Milton ]

The lower millstone grinds as much as the upper one. [ Proverb ]

The higher, the lower; and the more advanced, the more humble. [ Proverb ]

Without philosophy we should be little above the lower animals. [ Voltaire ]

Custom is the tyranny of the lower human faculties over the higher. [ Mme. Necker ]

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. [ W. R. Alger ]

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. [ Spurgeon ]

Great minds lower, instead of elevate, those who do not know how to support them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. [ Ward Beecher ]

All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. [ Bovee ]

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. [ Feltham ]

Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. [ Ovid ]

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. [ Ovid ]

To drink without thirst, to make love without cessation: this is what distinguishes us from the lower animals. [ Beaumarchais, Marriage of Figaro ]

The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. [ J. C. Sharp ]

Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures. [ Burns ]

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world. [ Dr. Watts ]

Friendship is impossible between men of high social standing and men in the lower walks of life; very difficult between a young man and a young woman; between two beautiful women, it is but a poetic fiction.

A taste for flowers and a love for the beautiful, as exhibited in the wonders of creative power, are evidences of a refined and sensitive nature, and peculiar traits of character which distinguish man from the lower order of animals. [ Celestia R. Colby ]

Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

The gracious and self-sacrificing and womanly women of our revolution wore dresses cut lower than those of their great-granddaughters, as any portrait gallery will show. The dress is indefensible, but let us not be too ready to condemn the wearer for worse sins than thoughtlessness and vanity. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. [ Chesterfield ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

lower in Scrabble®

The word lower is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters lower:

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lower in Words With Friends™

The word lower is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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