Crossword clues for lowlier
lowlier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lowly \Low"ly\, a. [Compar. Lowlier; superl. Lowliest.]
Not high; not elevated in place; low. ``Lowly lands.''
--Dryden.-
Low in rank or social importance.
One common right the great and lowly claims.
--Pope. -
Not lofty or sublime; humble.
These rural poems, and their lowly strain.
--Dryden. -
Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
--Matt. xi. 29.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: lowly)
WordNet
adj. low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, modest, small]
inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" [syn: junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, petty(a), secondary, subaltern, subordinate]
used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn: humble, menial]
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble]
See lowly