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low
Synonyms and Antonyms of low
- We took a cruise to the low northern latitudes.
semitropical (also semitropic), subtropical (also subtropic)
- Once considered the latest thing, electric typewriters now look like low technology indeed.
complex, complicated, intricate, involved, sophisticated
full-blown, grown, mature, matured, perfected, ripe, ripened
civilized, cultivated, enlightened, refined
contemporary, current, latest, mod, modern, modernistic, new, newfangled, new-fashioned, novel, now, present-day, space-age, state-of-the-art, supermodern, ultramodern, up-to-date
- People, both high and low, have been worshipping in this cathedral for centuries.
- I was feeling low, and wanted to do something exciting to cheer myself up.
bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched
aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, upset, worried
disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited
dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful
agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
- The tuba's low notes made the floor vibrate.
- The low hedge surrounding the garden wasn't meant to keep anything out, just to look pretty.
- The weeklong bout of the flu laid her low.
- Jokes about toilets are generally considered low humor.
coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, insensible, lowbred, lowbrow, raffish, rough, rough-hewn, roughneck, rude, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
- Low tactics of that sort will not be tolerated on this hockey team.
base, contemptible, despicable, detestable, dirty, dishonorable, execrable, ignoble, ignominious, low-down, low-minded, mean, nasty, paltry, snide, sordid, vile, wretched
- murmured her answer in a low voice
- Gas is low right now, but prices will inevitably rise this summer, when people start driving more.
- currently enjoys a low standing in the polls
- Levels for school volunteers remain low, at least compared to what was expected.
- livestock laid low by the deadly virus
bitten the dust
Synonym Discussion of low
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- base motives
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- refused to listen to such low talk
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- a vile remark
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