lower

lower is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Compar. of Low, a. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Compar. of Low, a.
2. adjective. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
3. adjective. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
4. adjective. To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
5. adjective. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
6. adjective. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
7. adjective. To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
8. intransitive verb. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
9. intransitive verb. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
10. intransitive verb. To frown; to look sullen.
11. noun. Cloudiness; gloominess.
12. noun. A frowning; sullenness.
13. noun. the lower of two berths
14. verb. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

    Synonyms: frown, glower, lour

15. verb. make lower or quieter

    "turn down the volume of a radio"

    Synonyms: lour

16. verb. set lower

    "lower a rating"

    "lower expectations"

    Synonyms: lour

17. verb. cause to drop or sink

    "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"

    Synonyms: depress

18. verb. move something or somebody to a lower position

    "take down the vase from the shelf"

Synonyms

frown, glower, lour, depress

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lower:

owler, rowel

Common word forms

lowers, lowered, lowerer, lowering, lowerable

Words from these letters

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