Synonyms of lowly

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adjective

ˈlō-lē 

1

as in low

belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank

a tycoon who struggled all his life to overcome his lowly origins

Synonyms & Similar Words

• low
• humble
• plebeian
• lower-class
• ignoble
• inferior
• proletarian
• unwashed
• poor
• low-life
• lumpen
• common
• vulgar
• prole
• lowborn
• mean
• baseborn
• middle-class
• bourgeois
• simple
• plain
• working-class
• downscale
• déclassé
• down-market

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• high
• noble
• lofty
• great
• aristocratic
• gentle
• upper-class
• genteel
• patrician
• grand
• highborn
• prominent
• upper-crust
• illustrious
• eminent
• notable
• blue-blooded
• highbred
• wellborn

2

as in meek

not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness

the nuns at the convent regard themselves as lowly servants of the Lord

Synonyms & Similar Words

• meek
• humble
• modest
• unassuming
• timid
• unaffected
• naive
• unpretentious
• shy
• down-to-earth
• demure
• simple
• quiet
• passive
• deferential
• submissive
• compliant
• subdued
• resigned
• acquiescent
• unassertive
• unaggressive
• plain
• yielding
• shrinking
• reserved
• bashful
• diffident
• mousy
• retiring
• sheepish
• ingenuous
• unobtrusive
• introverted
• cowering
• cringing
• overmodest
• self-effacing
• self-deprecating
• aw-shucks
• self-deprecatory

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• superior
• arrogant
• haughty
• high-and-mighty
• pompous
• pretentious
• supercilious
• uppity
• bumptious
• imperious
• lordly
• presumptuous
• conceited
• impudent
• aggressive
• egotistic
• forward
• impertinent
• peremptory
• highfalutin
• huffy
• overweening
• uppish
• high-hat
• cheeky
• presuming
• confident
• chesty
• saucy
• brassy
• audacious
• high-handed
• cocky
• bold
• assertive
• brash
• smug
• overconfident
• dominant
• hoity-toity
• hubristic
• vain
• prideful
• egocentric
• narcissistic
• toplofty
• cocksure
• vainglorious
• egoistic
• boastful
• disdainful
• huffish
• bombastic
• fastuous
• self-assertive
• domineering
• self-asserting
• overbearing
• condescending
• swaggering
• patronizing
• dominating
• self-important
• magisterial
• showy
• self-confident
• flamboyant
• ostentatious
• stuck-up
• self-centered
• self-contented
• self-conceited
• self-complacent
• self-satisfied
• outgoing
• self-obsessed
• self-engrossed
• immodest
• self-affected
• braggy
• self-congratulatory
• uninhibited
• self-pleased
• swelled-headed
• extroverted
• unreserved
• pontificating

lowly

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adverb

as in humbly

in a manner showing no signs of pride or self-assertion

lowly bowing before his king, he accepted his knighthood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• humbly
• meekly
• abjectly
• cap in hand
• deferentially
• sheepishly
• modestly
• submissively
• politely
• hat in hand
• meanly
• fearfully
• obsequiously
• servilely
• subserviently
• timidly
• diffidently
• shyly
• timorously
• bashfully
• mousily
• respectfully
• courteously
• civilly
• self-deprecatingly
• suppliantly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• proudly
• contemptuously
• boldly
• arrogantly
• loftily
• scornfully
• haughtily
• brazenly
• imperiously
• pompously
• pretentiously
• presumptuously
• superciliously
• pridefully
• audaciously
• brashly
• huffily
• fearlessly
• disdainfully
• swaggeringly
• recklessly
• self-importantly
• impertinently
• disrespectfully
• rashly
• rudely
• discourteously
• saucily
• uppishly
• ungraciously
• impudently
• uncivilly
• impolitely
• bitchily

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lowly

Adjective

While the Valkyries were handling their business on the court – building a lead as large as 34 against the lowly Connecticut Sun – the Ballhalla faithful were waiting. — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 26 May 2026

After losing two games against the lowly, 6th place Atlanta Hawks in the first round, the team didn’t lose for another 53 days, winning 15 of 16 games on the way to tonight’s clincher. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 13 June 2026

Adverb

And Colorado Springs Switchbacks earned a 3-1 win over lowly Sporting Kansas City. — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026

To win the division, the Ravens would need to win at Green Bay and Pittsburgh and have the Steelers lose to lowly Cleveland in Week 17. — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025