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Synonyms for lowly
ˈloʊ lilow·ly
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
lowly
Synonyms:
accountable, complaisant, compliant, conditional, constitutional, contingent, docile, ductile, gentle, humble, lenient, limited, meek, mild, responsible, submissive, yieldingAntonyms:
absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, authoritative, autocratic, coercive, commanding, compulsive, compulsory, controlling, despotic, dictatorial, dogmatic, domineering, exacting, haughty, imperative, imperious, irresponsible, lordly, overbearing, peremptory, positive, supreme, tyrannical, unconditional, unequivocal
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Princeton's WordNet
humble, low, lowly, modest, smalladjective
low or inferior in station or quality
"a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
Synonyms:
down(p), dispirited, minor, small, downcast, subaltern, scummy, base, baseborn, low-down, modest, petty(a), scurvy, pocket-sized, lower-ranking, secondary, humbled, gloomy, miserable, low, broken, small(a), down in the mouth, blue, humble, downhearted, grim, meek, low-toned, low-pitched, little, menial, pocket-size, small-scale, depleted, crushed, mild, junior-grade, diminished, abject, depressed, minuscule, low-spirited, belittled, humiliatedjunior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subalternadjective
inferior in rank or status
"the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
humble, menial, lowlyadjective
used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
Synonyms:
baseborn, low, small, base, petty(a), junior-grade, secondary, subaltern, modest, humble, menial, lower-rankingbase, baseborn, humble, lowlyadjective
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
"baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
Synonyms:
junior-grade, mean, basal, subaltern, humble, base, modest, menial, meanspirited, low, lower-ranking, secondary, small, immoral, baseborn, petty(a)
Dictionary of English Synonymes
lowlyadjective
lowlyadjective
Synonyms:
humble, meek, resigned, submissivelowlyadjective
Synonyms:
mean, not great, without dignitylowlyadjective
Synonyms:
modest, unpretending, not lofty
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lowlyadjective
Synonyms:
humble, meek, unassuming
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#350 | small | |
#398 | little | |
#402 | low | |
#618 | blue | |
#736 | common | |
#751 | limited | |
#988 | base | |
#1008 | mean | |
#1237 | responsible | |
#2535 | broken | |
#2673 | minor | |
#2766 | secondary | |
#5870 | constitutional | |
#7995 | compliant | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#8164 | mild | |
#9933 | conditional | |
#10026 | modest | |
#12155 | humble | |
#12571 | accountable | |
#12913 | depressed | |
#13558 | contingent | |
#14263 | crushed | |
#14856 | grim | |
#17102 | miserable | |
#17833 | diminished | |
#18555 | basal | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#21173 | depleted | |
#25406 | immoral | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#29257 | submissive | |
#29487 | meek | |
#37657 | lowly | |
#39475 | humiliated | |
#45288 | humbled | |
#49824 | ductile | |
#51865 | abject | |
#54137 | lenient | |
#66707 | docile | |
#69348 | scurvy | |
#71006 | minuscule | |
#76394 | menial | |
#81752 | downcast | |
#115306 | scummy | |
#123625 | subaltern | |
#133788 | belittled | |
#147160 | dispirited | |
#245806 | downhearted | |
#293856 | complaisant |
How to use lowly in a sentence?
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers
Over the year, what we've seen is that for a long term, emerging markets are still quite lowly priced or reasonably priced, and earnings potential is also quite good. So from a long-term perspective, it's reasonably attractive.
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.
It's very hard for me to figure out what these courts mean when they say don't take race into account a lot but take race into account, i understand what they've said, but it sounds a whole lot more like a system we've set up to say something and then not really do what we're saying and I don't know how to resolve that ... I'm just a lowly district judge, and I don't get to change what the Supreme Court has said. But it strikes me that there really doesn't seem to be a lot of room between don't let race predominate but take race into account.
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