low
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Is low a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.Examples: "the pitch (or: the ball) was low"Synonyms: nether, underslungAntonyms: high
2. Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.Synonyms: anemic, frail, anemic, breakable, broken-down, damaged, debilitated, decrepit
3. (especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.Examples: "low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms"; "In the case of languages spoken by very low races, like the Puris and the Tasmanians, the difficulty of deciding such a point must be very great."especially
4. (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).Examples: "Among them there was none more low, more pious, more sincere, or more given to interference. To teach Mr. Worth his duty as a parish clergyman was evidently a necessity to such a bishop."; "[…] and give a judgment against not only Denison, but the Church's doctrine; and that, it having once been given, we shall not get it reversed; and that the Church of England will seem to be committed to Low doctrine, which […]"
5. (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.Examples: "the low northern latitudes"
6. (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.Examples: "The note was too low for her to sing."; "Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts."Synonyms: low-pitched, deep, flat
noun (English)
1. (meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.Examples: "A deep low is centred over the British Isles."informal
2. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
3. (slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.Examples: "He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low."slangusually
adv (English)
1. (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.Examples: "The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian."
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, transitive) To lower; to make low.Examples: "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:"; "The merry fowks that were the ben, / By this time 'gan to low their strain"obsoletetransitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) simple past of laugh.form-ofobsoletepast
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To moo.Examples: "The cattle were lowing."; "In peals of thunder now she roars--and now / She gently whimpers like a lowing cow"; "The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary