Synonyms for lowly
ˈloʊ lilow·ly

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1. lowly

   Synonyms:
   accountable, complaisant, compliant, conditional, constitutional, contingent, docile, ductile, gentle, humble, lenient, limited, meek, mild, responsible, submissive, yielding

   Antonyms:
   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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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

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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

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1. lowlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   humble, meek, unassuming

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1. List of paraphrases for "lowly":

   humble, modest

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How to use lowly in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. William Shakespeare:

   'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

3. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871:

   Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

4. Jesus Christ:

   Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

5. 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