Word Meanings - LOWLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands." Dryden. 2. Low in rank or social importance. One common right the great and lowly claims. Pope. 3. Not lofty or sublime; humble. These rural poems, and their lowly strain. Dryden. 4. Having

Additional info about word: LOWLY

1. Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands." Dryden. 2. Low in rank or social importance. One common right the great and lowly claims. Pope. 3. Not lofty or sublime; humble. These rural poems, and their lowly strain. Dryden. 4. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Matt. xi. 29.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOWLY)

• Humble
• Low
• lowly
• obscure
• meek
• modest
• unassuming
• unpretending
• submissive
• Ignoble
• Moun
• base
• dishonorable
• humble
• plebian
• Abated
• sunk
• depressed
• stunted
• declining
• deep
• subsided
• inaudible
• cheap
• gentle
• dejected
• degraded
• mean
• abject
• unworthy
• feeble
• moderate
• frugal
• reprieved
• subdued
• reduced
• poor
• Simple
• Single
• incomplex
• uncompounded
• unblended
• isolated
• pure
• unmixed
• mere
• absolute
• plain
• unadorned
• unartificial
• artless
• sincere
• undesigning
• single-minded
• unaffected
• sickly
• weak
• unsophisticated
• homely
• elementary
• ultimate
• primal
• rudimentary

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOWLY)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to LOWLY)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• ABSOLUTENESS
  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• ULTIMATE
  come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this
• DECLINATOR
  1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket.
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• RABATINE
  A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.