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lowness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lowness has 4 senses
- lowness(n = noun.state) low status, lowliness - a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation; Array is a kind of position, status
- lowness(n = noun.feeling) dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness - a feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits" is a kind of sadness, unhappiness
- lowness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling" is a kind of height, tallness
- lowness(n = noun.attribute) Array - a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates" is a kind of degree, grade, level
has particulars: inferiority, lower rank, lower status
Derived forms adjective low4, adjective low7
Derived forms adjective low10, adjective low9
has particulars: squatness, stubbiness, shortness, truncation
Antonym: highness
Derived form adjective low2
Derived forms adjective low1, adjective low5, adjective low3, adjective low8
THESAURUS
lowness
Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, baseness, bassness, beggarliness, blank despondency, brevity, briefness, commonness, commonplaceness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, crumminess, curtness, death wish, debasement, decrescendo, deepness, degradation, dejectedness, dejection, depravity, depression, despair, despicableness, despondency, despondentness, dimness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, enormity, execrableness, faintness, feebleness, flatness, foulness, fullness, fulsomeness, gentleness, grossness, heartlessness, heinousness, hollowness, homeliness, hopelessness, ignobility, indistinctness, instantaneousness, littleness, low spirits, lowness of spirit, malaise, meanness, mellowness, miserableness, monstrousness, nefariousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, oppression, ordinariness, paltriness, pessimism, pettiness, plangency, plebeianism, pokiness, poorness, rankness, resonance, richness, scabbiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, self-destructive urge, shabbiness, shoddiness, short time, shortness, sinking heart, smallness, softness, sonority, sonorousness, spiritlessness, squalor, subaudibility, subduedness, succinctness, suicidal despair, summariness, taedium vitae, transience, unclearness, vibrancy, vileness, weakness, weariness of life, wretchednessROGET THESAURUS
lowness
Vulgarity
N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, Bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.Lowness
N lowness, debasement, depression, prostration, depression, molehill, lowlands, basement floor, ground floor, rez de chaussee, cellar, hold, bilge, feet, heels, low water, low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide, low, neap, debased, nether, nether most, flat, level with the ground, lying low, crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate, under, beneath, underneath, below, downwards, adown, at the foot of, under foot, under ground, down stairs, below stairs, at a low ebb, below par.Humility
N humility, humbleness, meekness, lowness, lowliness, lowlihood, abasement, self-abasement, submission, resignation, condescension, affability, modesty, verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion, sense of shame, sense of disgrace, humiliation, mortification, let down, set down, humble, lowly, meek, modest, humble minded, sober-minded, unoffended, submissive, servile, condescending, affable, humbled, bowed down, resigned, abashed, ashamed, dashed, out of countenance, down in the mouth, down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers, humbled in the dust, browbeaten, chapfallen, crestfallen, dumfoundered, flabbergasted, shorn of one's glory, with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee, on all fours, on one's feet, under correction, with due deference, I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant, my service to you, da locum melioribus, parvum parva decent.
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