low

adjective · noun · adverb · verbA1

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
lower
Superlative
lowest
  1. 1.

    Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.

    standing on low ground

    in a low valley, ringed by low hills

    a low wall a low shelf

    Đồng nghĩa: nether, underslung

  2. 2.

    Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.

    a low bow

    a low tide

    the Mississippi is unusually low right now

    It is a little low hearb […]

    "Now you mention her, I do remember the young lady," said Mrs. Grantly; "a dark girl, very low, and without much figure. She seemed to me to keep very much in the background."

    Đồng nghĩa: short, small, low, scrimp, short, shortsome, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, vertically challenged

  3. 3.

    Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)

    low birth

    low rank

    the low officials of the bureaucracy

    low-quality fabric

    playing low tricks on them

    a person of low mind

    Now that was low even for you!

    Đồng nghĩa: bad, mid, sad, sorry, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched

  4. 4.

    Humble, meek, not haughty.

    Đồng nghĩa: modest, self-effacing, abased, demure, diffident, humble, humble-hearted, low, lowly, meek, mild, modest, poor, resigned, self-effacing, unpretentious, verecund

  5. 5.

    Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.

    She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.

    Đồng nghĩa: contemptuous, sneerful, belittling, blistering, contemptuous, contumelious, deprecative, derogative, despising, disdainful, dismissive, disrespectful, low, scathing, scornful, slight, slighting, sneerful, sniffy, withering

  6. 6.

    Being a nadir, a bottom.

    the low point in her career

  7. 7.

    Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.

    low spirits

    Đồng nghĩa: sorrowful, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

  8. 8.

    Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.

    a low pulse

    made (or: laid) low by sickness

    Đồng nghĩa: anemic, frail, anemic, breakable, broken-down, damaged, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, dickless, effete, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, faint, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, harmed, hurt, impaired, impotent, infirm, injured, languid, low, powerless, prostrated, prostrate, puny, raddled, resistless, sapped, slightsoft, softened, susceptible, tender, tired, torpid, unresistant, vincible, vulnerable, wasted, weak, weakened, weary, weedy, wimpy, worn out, yielding

  9. 9.

    Dead. (Compare lay low.)

    Đồng nghĩa: departed, six feet under, asleep, at rest, blessed, cadaverous, clay-cold, deceased, resting, decomposed, defunct, departed, expired, extinct, fey, gone, good, inanimate, inert, kaput, killed, late, lifeless, living impaired, low, no longer with us, no more, perished, reposing, six feet deep, six feet under, stiff, unalive, unalived, wasted, whilom, with God

  10. 10.

    Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

    My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk at even lower prices. The contractors gave a low estimate of the costs. low cholesterol a low voltage wire a low number

    Đồng nghĩa: reduced, devalued, low-level, compact, fun size, fun-sized, ickle, insignificant, lit'l, little, low, modest, mini, petty, pint-sized, pocket-size, slim, slight, small, small-scale, undersized, wee, wurly, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless

  11. 11.

    (especially)(especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.

    low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms

  12. 12.

    (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
lowslowelawe
  1. 1.

    A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).

    You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.

    Economic growth has hit a new low.

    Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.

  2. 2.

    A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.

    He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder

  3. 3.

    (informal)(meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.

    A deep low is centred over the British Isles.

  4. 4.

    The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.

    Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.

  5. 5.

    (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.

  6. 6.

    (slang, usually)(slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.

    He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.

  7. 7.

    (Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal)(countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.

  8. 8.

    (archaic, obsolete)(archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.

  9. 9.

    (Scottish, archaic, dialectal)(Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

Trạng từ

adverb
Comparative
lower
Superlative
lowest
  1. 1.

    Close to the ground.

  2. 2.

    Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.

  3. 3.

    With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.

    to speak low

  4. 4.

    Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.

    He sold his wheat low.

  5. 5.

    In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.

  6. 6.

    In a time approaching our own.

  7. 7.

    (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.

    The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
lows
V_ing/Gerund
lowing
V_ed/pp
lowedlowe
  1. 1.

    (obsolete, transitive)To lower; to make low.

    I shall only say this, that all the other graces must low the sail to faith, and so it is faith must carry us through, being that last triumphing grace, […]

    Now to use these as Hypotheseis, as himself in his Word, is pleas'd to low himself to our capacities, is allowable:

  2. 2.

    (form of, obsolete, past)simple past of laugh.

  3. 3.

    (intransitive)To moo.

    The cattle were lowing.

  4. 4.

    (Scotland, UK, dialectal)(UK, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.

    Driest wood will eithest low,

  5. 5.

    (alt of, alternative)Alternative form of 'low.

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Đồng nghĩa

netherunderslungshortsmallscrimpshortsomestubbedstubbystumpyvertically challengedbadmidsadsorryassbasebelow parbottom-shelfBTECbum

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ine-pro From Middle English lah, loue, from Old Norse lágr (low), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (low; flat), from *ligjaną (to lie; to lead), from Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti (to be lying down), from *legʰ- (to lie). 2 cog Cognate with laich, läich, leech, laag, leeg, leeg' (low; inferior), leeg, lav, lágur, låg, laaka, laaku;

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