lowering

Speech parts

1. lowering - Noun

2. lowering - Adjective

3. lowering - Verb

5. lowering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Lower

Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

threatening fall heavy drop decline falling cutting descent sinking diminishing cloudy gloomy lessening ominous murky
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Antonyms

increase standing bright supplementation deepening surcharge
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Hypernyms

movement reduction decrease diminution step-down

Hyponyms

depression tapering

Phrases with the word

cholesterol-lowering agents blood-pressure-lowering level-lowering agent lowering of costs cholesterol-lowering drug cholesterol-lowering drugs

Anagrams

roweling

Examples

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. Will Durant

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. Birch Bayh

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. George Will

The leaders of the free world keep lowering their standards and authoritarians keep taking more territory. Eventually people wake up and ask why Putin murders in the UK or hacks in the US. Why wouldn't he? You didn't stop him before. Garry Kasparov

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. Josh Billings

When a man raises his voice at home, know that he started lowering if elsewhere. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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