'Lowering' definitions:
Definition of 'lowering'
From: WordNet
adjective
noun
The act of causing to become less
noun
The act of causing something to move to a lower level [syn: lowering, letting down]
Definition of 'Lowering'
From: GCIDE
- Lower \Low"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lowering.] [From Low, a.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To reduce in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lowering'
From: GCIDE
- Lower \Low"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lowered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lowering.] [OE. lowren, luren; cf. D. loeren, LG. luren. G. lauern to lurk, to be on the watch, and E. leer, lurk.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- All the clouds that lowered upon our house. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To frown; to look sullen. [1913 Webster]
- But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lowering'
From: GCIDE
- Lowering \Low"er*ing\, a. Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lowering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- about to be,
- abridgment,
- abusive,
- Acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- alleviation,
- already in sight,
- apocalyptic,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- attenuation,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- beetle,
- beetle-browed,
- beetling,
- black,
- black-browed,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- break,
- brewing,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- cadence,
- catenary,
- cheapening,
- Cimmerian,
- close,
- close at hand,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- coming,
- comminatory,
- concavity,
- contraction,
- cut,
- dampening,
- damping,
- dark,
- dark and gloomy,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decline,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- decurrence,
- deduction,
- deepening,
- deflation,
- degradation,
- dejected,
- demotion,
- denunciatory,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- descent,
- detrusion,
- devaluation,
- digging,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dire,
- dive,
- doomful,
- dour,
- dreary,
- drilling,
- droop,
- ducking,
- dull,
- dumpish,
- dying,
- dying off,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- excavation,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- fateful,
- fear-inspiring,
- foreboding,
- forthcoming,
- frowning,
- funereal,
- future,
- gathering,
- gloom,
- gloomful,
- gloominess,
- glooming,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- going to happen,
- grim,
- grum,
- hauling down,
- heavy,
- hectoring,
- hollowness,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-lighted,
- ill-lit,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- inauspicious,
- incumbent,
- instant,
- intimidating,
- jutting,
- languishment,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- letup,
- looming,
- lower,
- lurking,
- markdown,
- melancholy,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- miniaturization,
- mining,
- mitigation,
- moodish,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mumpish,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- nose dive,
- nubilous,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- on the horizon,
- overcast,
- overclouded,
- overhanging,
- overhung,
- pending,
- plummet,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- portending,
- portentous,
- preparing,
- price cut,
- price fall,
- price reduction,
- probing,
- projecting,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- sag,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- scowling,
- simplicity,
- sinister,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- slash,
- slump,
- somber,
- somberness,
- sombrous,
- sombrousness,
- stormy,
- Stygian,
- submergence,
- subsidence,
- subtraction,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- superincumbent,
- surly,
- swag,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- threatful,
- thrusting under,
- to come,
- tunneling,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- upcoming,
- waiting,
- weakening
Words containing 'Lowering'
- Lower,
- Lowered,
- Loweringly,
- Lower Allen,
- Lower Brule,
- Lower Burrell,
- Lower Kalskag,
- Lower Lake,
- Lower Salem,
- Lower Sonoran,
- Lower transit,
- To lower the flag,
- at a lower place,
- lower berth,
- lower bound,
- lower california,
- lower cannon,
- lower carboniferous,
- lower case,
- lower class,
- lower court,
- lower criticism,
- lower deck,
- lower egypt,
- lower house,
- lower jaw,
- lower jawbone,
- lower limit,
- lower mantle,
- lower oneself,
- lower pair,
- lower paleolithic,
- lower peninsula,
- lower pharyngeals,
- lower rank,
- lower saxony,
- lower status,
- lower tunguska,
- on a lower floor,
- to a lower place,
- Lower Allen, PA,
- Lower Brule, SD,
- Lower Burrell, PA,
- Lower Carboniferous period,
- Lower Grand Lagoon,
- Lower Kalskag, AK,
- Lower Lake, CA,
- Lower Salem, OH,
- Lower-case,
- lipid-lowering,
- lower respiratory infection,
- lower respiratory tract,
- lower-class,
- lower-limit,
- lower-normandy,
- lower-ranking,
- Lower Grand Lagoon, FL,
- To lower the yards a-portoise,
- lipid-lowering medication,
- lipid-lowering medicine,
- lower respiratory tract smear,
- lower-case letter,
- lower-middle-class,
- upper-lower-class,
- lower-class low-class,
- lower-class vs middle-class vs upper-class low-class