lower

Meanings

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of low
• bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
• Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
• older

Adverb

• Comparative form or more of low

Verb

• To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
• to pull down
• To reduce the height of
• To depress as to direction
• To make less elevated
• To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
• To bring down; to humble
• (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
• To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
• To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
• To decrease in value, amount, etc.
• To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
• Alternate spelling of lour

Related

Similar words

• bring down
• shorten
• reduce
• reduce, turn down
• be humble
• cut, reduce
• die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink
• become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduce

Opposite words

• higher
• upper

Origin

• low + -er