LOWING Synonyms

• the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)

• talk whiningly

• cry plaintively

• the sound made by a cow or bull

• make a low noise, characteristic of bovines

• of the most contemptible kind

• most unfortunate or miserable

• showing utter resignation or hopelessness

• showing humiliation or submissiveness

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

• blue clothing

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• the sky as viewed during daylight

• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• characterized by profanity or cursing

• suggestive of sexual impropriety

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• morally rigorous and strict

• causing dejection

• turn blue

• physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split

• not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly

• (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded

• subdued or brought low in condition or status

• tamed or trained to obey

• topographically very uneven

• imperfectly spoken or written

• thrown into a state of disarray or confusion

• weakened and infirm

• destroyed financially

• out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')

• discontinuous

• lacking a part or parts

• treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance

• subdued or brought low in condition or status

• no longer sufficient

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down

• marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• preceding all others in time or space or degree

• highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections

• the first or highest in an ordering or series

• the first element in a countable series

• the time at which something is supposed to begin

• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

• an honours degree of the highest class

• the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

• before anything else

• the initial time

• before another in time, space, or importance

• prominently forward

• serving to begin

• ranking above all others

• serving to set in motion

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

• harshly ironic or sinister

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful

• low or inferior in station or quality

• used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• cause to be unpretentious

• cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

• subdued or brought low in condition or status

• subdued or brought low in condition or status

• made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride