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Synonyms for lowly
ˈloʊ lilow·ly

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lowly

    Synonyms:
    mean, low, common, humble, meek

    Antonyms:
    lofty, elevated, eminent, lordly, proud

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  1. 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, humiliated

    Antonyms:
    noble, superior, skilled, senior

  2. junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subalternadjective

    inferior in rank or status

    "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"

    Antonyms:
    skilled, noble, superior, senior

  3. 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-ranking

    Antonyms:
    noble, senior, superior, skilled

  4. base, 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)

    Antonyms:
    skilled, senior, superior, noble

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lowlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    low, not high

  2. lowlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    humble, meek, resigned, submissive

  3. lowlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    mean, not great, without dignity

  4. lowlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    modest, unpretending, not lofty

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lowlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    humble, meek, unassuming

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "lowly":

    humble, modest

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How to use lowly in a sentence?

  1. Benjamin Netanyahu:

    We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers

  2. Jeffrey Jaensubhakij:

    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.

  3. Charles Darwin:

    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.

  4. Lao Tzu:

    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.

  5. Lee Philip Rudofsky:

    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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