low
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Tính từ
adjective- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Being a nadir, a bottom.
the low point in her career
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
(especially)(especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
- 12.
(chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
Danh từ
noun- 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.
A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder
- 3.
(informal)(meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
- 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.
(card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
- 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.
(Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal)(countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
- 8.
(archaic, obsolete)(archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
- 9.
(Scottish, archaic, dialectal)(Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
Close to the ground.
- 2.
Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
- 3.
With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
to speak low
- 4.
Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
He sold his wheat low.
- 5.
In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- 6.
In a time approaching our own.
- 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- 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.
(form of, obsolete, past)simple past of laugh.
- 3.
(intransitive)To moo.
The cattle were lowing.
- 4.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal)(UK, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
Driest wood will eithest low,
- 5.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of 'low.
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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;