Low

/lou/
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Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Not high or tall; having a small distance from the bottom to the top: Used to describe physical height or elevation.
    • Below average in amount, extent, or intensity: Used for quantities, levels, degrees, or volume.
    • Of inferior rank, quality, or character: Describing something considered humble, modest, or contemptible.
    • Depressed or dejected in mood: Feeling sad, gloomy, or lacking in spirit.
    • Deep in pitch: Used to describe a sound or voice that is not high.

  2. Noun:

    • A low point, level, or figure: The smallest or least amount recorded or possible.
    • An area of low atmospheric pressure; a depression: A meteorological term.
    • The gear used for starting or slow speeds in a vehicle: The first or slowest gear.

  3. Verb:

    • To make the deep sound characteristic of cattle; to moo.

  4. Adverb:

    • At or to a low position, level, or degree: Near the ground or below average.
Usage Examples

  • Adjective:

    • The plane flew at a low altitude. (Describing small height)
    • We have low supplies of water. (Describing small amount)
    • He comes from a low social background. (Describing inferior rank)
    • She's been feeling very low since her friend moved away. (Describing depressed mood)
    • He spoke in a low, calm voice. (Describing deep pitch)

  • Noun:

    • The temperature reached a record low last night. (A low point)
    • A low is approaching from the west, bringing rain. (A weather system)
    • Put the car in low to climb the steep hill. (A gear)

  • Verb:

    • The cows low in the field at dusk.

  • Adverb:

    • The branches of the willow tree hung low over the water.
Advanced Usage

  • "to be brought low": to be reduced in status, health, or fortune.

    • The once-powerful king was brought low by illness and betrayal.

  • "to lie low": to hide or keep a low profile to avoid attention.

    • After the scandal, the politician decided to lie low for a few months.

  • "to have a low opinion of": to think poorly of someone or something.

    • I'm afraid I have a very low opinion of his professional ethics.
Variants and Related Words
  • Lower (verb, adjective): comparative form of 'low'; to reduce or make something lower.
    • Please lower your voice.
  • Lowly (adjective): humble in status or manner.
    • He rose from lowly origins to become CEO.
  • Low-down (adjective, informal): mean, unfair, or contemptible.
    • That was a low-down trick to play on a friend.
Synonyms
  • Short (for height)
  • Small, Reduced (for amount)
  • Inferior, Humble (for status)
  • Depressed, Downcast (for mood)
  • Deep, Bass (for sound)
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Low-key (adjective): restrained, modest, or not elaborate.
    • We're having a low-key celebration at home this year.
  • Run low (on) (verb phrase): to have a diminishing supply of something.
    • We are running low on printer paper.
Related Idioms
  • At an all-time low: at the worst level ever recorded.
    • Morale in the office is at an all-time low.
  • High and low: everywhere.
    • I've searched high and low for my keys.
  • Stoop low (to do something): to behave in an immoral or dishonorable way to achieve something.
    • I never thought he would stoop so low as to steal from his own family.
Adjective
  1. 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
  2. subdued or brought low in condition or status
    • brought low
    • a broken man
    • his broken spirit
  3. no longer sufficient
    • supplies are low
    • our funds are depleted
  4. low or inferior in station or quality
    • a humble cottage
    • a lowly parish priest
    • a modest man of the people
    • small beginnings
  5. 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
  6. used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
  7. unrefined in character
    • low comedy
  8. very low in volume
    • a low murmur
    • the low-toned murmur of the surf
  9. 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
  10. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
    • low prices
    • the reservoir is low
Noun
  1. the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
  2. a low level or position or degree
    • the stock market fell to a new low
  3. British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
  4. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
    • a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow
Verb
  1. make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
Adverb
  1. in a low position; near the ground
    • the branches hung low

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