low-rise

adjective

ˈlō-ˈrīz 

1

: having few stories and not usually equipped with elevators

a low-rise apartment/office building

2

: of, relating to, or characterized by low-rise buildings

a low-rise housing development

3

: having a shorter than standard rise (see rise entry 2 sense 7)

low-rise jeans

The finishing touch of her ensemble then came in the form of "old school," low-rise brown suede … pants and coordinating brown leather boots.

—Claudia Miller

Jeans can also be OK … in some work environments, but not the "Saturday night jeans" that are low-rise and sexy.

—Paula Rath

Examples of low-rise in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Along a stretch of low-rise businesses in the shadow of the city of Atlanta’s jail, an upstart development team has promised to build a nearly $4 billion campus of futuristic high-rises with seven-figure condos and high-end office space. —Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 11 May 2026

In the epilogue to the book, Olson relates a story about how an influencer named Lyla Biggs posted a video on TikTok right before Black Friday in 2023 featuring the company’s Casey low-rise baggy jeans in the Astrid wash. —Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 May 2026

Well, sister Kylie Jenner is launching a KHY denim line (and has been wearing a suite of low-rise blue and white numbers to sit courtside at the New York Knicks games), and jeans did make a quite divisive appearance at the 2026 Met Gala. —Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 May 2026

Built by casino owners in 1962 at the height of tiki fever, the low-rise house channels the postwar Polynesian craze sparked in part by soldiers returning from the Pacific and further fueled by pop culture phenomena such as Elvis Presley’s 1961 hit movie Blue Hawaii. —Zoey Goto, Architectural Digest, 6 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined at sense 1