Lowly
['ləʊlɪ] or ['loli]
Definition
(a.) Not high; not elevated in place; low.
(a.) Low in rank or social importance.
(a.) Not lofty or sublime; humble.
(a.) Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
(adv.) In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
(adv.) In a low condition; meanly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Low, not high.[2]. Humble, meek, resigned, submissive.[3]. Mean, not great, without dignity.[4]. Modest, unpretending, not lofty.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mean, low, common, humble, meek
ANT:Lofty, elevated, eminent, {[li>nlly]?}, proud
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Examples
- You see I am only just emerging from my lowly station. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The early plants were tied, and most lowly plants to-day are tied, by the conditions of their life cycle, to water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In scattered islands and in Papua and New Guinea we find another series of black and brownish peoples of a more lowly type with frizzy hair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Do not fear, Mr Boffin, that I shall contaminate the premises which your gold has bought, with MY lowly pursuits. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These, over and above Sloppy, were the mourners at the lowly grave. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- O fear not disgrace or lowly fortune, while you have your Perdita; fear not sorrow, while our child lives and smiles. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And in those tears they all shed together, the high and the lowly, melted away all the heart-burnings and anger of the oppressed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Finally, I believe that many lowly organised forms now exist throughout the world, from various causes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And in her commerce with the great our dear friend showed the same frankness which distinguished her transactions with the lowly in station. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Christianity also was a doctrine of immortality and salvation, and it too spread at first chiefly among the lowly and unhappy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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