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Lowest   /lˈoʊəst/   Listen
Lowest

adjective
1.
Lowest in rank or importance.  Synonyms: last, last-place.  "In last place"
adverb
1.
In the lowest position; nearest the ground.


Low

adjective
(compar. lower; superl. lowest)
1.
Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.  "The reservoir is low"
2.
Literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.  "Low clouds" , "Low hills" , "The sun is low" , "Low furniture" , "A low bow"
3.
Very low in volume.  Synonym: low-toned.  "The low-toned murmur of the surf"
4.
Unrefined in character.
5.
Used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency.  Synonym: low-pitched.
6.
Of the most contemptible kind.  Synonyms: abject, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy.  "A low stunt to pull" , "A low-down sneak" , "His miserable treatment of his family" , "You miserable skunk!" , "A scummy rabble" , "A scurvy trick"
7.
Low or inferior in station or quality.  Synonyms: humble, lowly, modest, small.  "A lowly parish priest" , "A modest man of the people" , "Small beginnings"
8.
No longer sufficient.  Synonym: depleted.  "Our funds are depleted"
9.
Subdued or brought low in condition or status.  Synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated.  "A broken man" , "His broken spirit"
10.
Filled with melancholy and despondency.  Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited.  "Gloomy predictions" , "A gloomy silence" , "Took a grim view of the economy" , "The darkening mood" , "Lonely and blue in a strange city" , "Depressed by the loss of his job" , "A dispirited and resigned expression on her face" , "Downcast after his defeat" , "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"



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"Lowest" Quotes from Famous Books



... leave to knock me black and blue, and I won't lift a hand. But not now. Now we've another job on hand. Man, we're on the same side and I never knew it. It's too bad a case for apologies, but if it's any consolation to you I feel the lowest dog ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan
... for the first time at the dinner-table. The two persons who took the lowest places at table appeared the most original; these were the shopman and the aunt. Both of them had only at dinner the honor of being with the family; they were quite shut out from the ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... and familiar use of his Christian name. To call him "Sir Richard" in these pages (except in the character of one of his servants) would be simply ridiculous. When he lent his money, his horses, his house, and (sometimes, after unlucky friends had dropped to the lowest social depths) even his clothes, this general benefactor was known, in the best society and the worst society alike, as "Dick." He filled the hundred mouths of Rumor with his nickname, in the days when there was an opera ...
— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins
... informed that he believes in a God, who, by miracle, gave the living unit at the base of his evolutionary series, but it seems to be an admission for the sake merely of avoiding disaster, for he says: "In what manner the mental powers were first developed in the lowest organisms is as hopeless an inquiry as how life itself first originated. These are problems for the distant future, if they are ever to be solved by man."—Descent of Man, p. 66. This is an open confession; in ...
— The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 • Various
... could have borne anything but billiards. The companions you'll find! The Captains that will be always borrowing fifty pounds of you! I tell you, Caudle, a billiard-room's a place where ruin of all sorts is made easy, I may say, to the lowest understanding, so you can't miss it. It's a chapel-of-ease for the devil to preach in—don't tell me not to be eloquent: I don't know what you mean, Mr. Caudle, and I shall be just as eloquent as I like. But I never ...
— Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures • Douglas Jerrold


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