nether

Speech parts

1. nether - Noun

2. nether - Adjective

3. nether - Verb

4. nether - Adverb

5. nether - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

under lower infernal below bottom beneath inferior subordinate underneath subterranean hellish underworld chthonic subsurface chthonian
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Antonyms

arch cardinal central especial high best
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Phrases with the word

Nether Peover Nether Heyford Nether Wallop Nether Kellet Nether Poppleton Nether Staveley

Anagrams

threne Herent

Examples

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. Arthur Conan Doyle

Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real. Thomas Carlyle

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone. Eric Rücker Eddison

The Piper wants meikle, that wants the nether chafts. Scottish Proverb

She is nether fish nor fowl. Spanish Proverb

Nanni cherished his old age. [...] He captured Simurrum, but [...] he never saw mighty kingship. Thus Nanni was carried off to the nether world. Sumerian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

nethead netheless nethelesse Nether Alderley Nether Broughton nether cheek