Synonyms of the word

low

• adj. In a position comparatively close to the ground.
• adj. Small in height.
• adj. Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
• adj. Depressed, sad.
• adj. Not high in amount or quantity.
• adj. Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
• adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
• adj. Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
• adj. Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
• adj. Being near the equator.
• adj. Humble in character or status.
• adj. Simple in complexity or development.
• adj. Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
• adj. Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
• adj. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
• adj. (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
• n. Something that is low; a low point.
• n. A depressed mood or situation.
• n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
• n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
• n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
• n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
• adv. Close to the ground.
• adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
• adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
• adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
• adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
• adv. In a time approaching our own.
• adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
• v. obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
• v. (intransitive) To moo.
• n. (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
• n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

abject

• adj. (obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
• adj. Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
• adj. Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a…
• adj. Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
• n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

alto

• n. A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a…
• n. A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.

baritone

• n. The male voice between tenor and bass.
• n. The musical range between tenor and bass.
• n. A person, instrument, or group that performs in the range between tenor and bass.
• n. Specifically, a brass instrument similar to the euphonium, but with a cylindrical bore instead of a conical…
• n. (linguistics) Alternative form of barytone.

bass

• adj. Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
• n. A low spectrum of sound tones.
• n. A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
• n. A male singer who sings in the bass range.
• n. (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric…
• n. The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
• v. To sound in a deep tone.
• n. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
• n. The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
• n. Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees.
• n. Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock or thick mat.

blue

• adj. Of the colour blue.
• adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
• adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
• adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented…
• adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant…
• adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
• adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
• adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
• adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
• adj. (comedy) Risque or obscene.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the…
• n. A blue dye or pigment.
• n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
• n. Blue clothing.
• n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
• n. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
• n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
• n. The ocean; deep waters.
• n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
• n. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatini in the family Lycaenidae.
• n. A bluefish.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
• n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
• n. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
• n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• v. (ergative) To make or become blue.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes…
• v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
• v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
• adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.

broken

• v. past participle of break.
• adj. Fragmented, in separate pieces.
• adj. (of a promise, etc) Breeched; violated; not kept.
• adj. Non-functional; not functioning properly.
• adj. (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
• adj. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
• adj. (of land) Uneven.
• adj. (sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

cartoonist

• n. (comics) Person who creates a cartoon or strip cartoons.
• n. (comics) Person who both writes and illustrates comic books or graphic novels.

contemptible

• adj. deserving contempt.

contrabass

• n. part or section one octave lower than bass.
• n. double bass, string bass.
• n. person or instrument performing the contrabass part.

contralto

• n. (music) The lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto…

crushed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of crush.
• adj. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
• adj. Broken, saddened, depressed.
• adj. (not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.

debased

• v. simple past tense and past participle of debase.

deep

• adj. (heading, of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
• adj. (heading, intellectual, social) Complex, involved.
• adj. (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
• adj. (of a color) Dark and highly saturated.
• adj. (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
• adj. Immersed, submerged (in).
• adj. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
• adv. Deeply.
• n. (literary, with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
• n. (rare) A deep shade of colour.
• n. (US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
• n. (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.

deficient

• adj. Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
• adj. Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper…

degraded

• adj. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
• adj. (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain…
• adj. (heraldry) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of degrade.

degree

• n. (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
• n. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
• n. A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
• n. (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
• n. (now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
• n. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
• n. A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university…
• n. (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
• n. (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
• n. (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
• n. (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
• n. (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc…

dejected

• adj. Sad and dispirited.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of deject.

depleted

• adj. Used up, expended; of which nothing is left.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of deplete.

depressed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of depress.
• adj. unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent.
• adj. Suffering from clinical depression.
• adj. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

devalued

• v. simple past tense and past participle of devalue.

dispirited

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dispirit.
• adj. Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

double-bass

• n. Alternative form of double bass.

down

• n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland.
• n. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
• n. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered…
• n. (slang, rare, countable) A penis.
• adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
• adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
• adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
• adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
• adv. Into a state of non-operation.
• adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
• adv. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
• adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
• adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
• adv. From less to greater detail.
• adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
• adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather…
• prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
• prep. From one end to another of.
• adj. Depressed, feeling low.
• adj. At a lower level than before.
• adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
• adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
• adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to.
• adj. (not comparable, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
• adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
• adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled…
• adj. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
• adj. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down,…
• adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.).
• adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
• v. (transitive) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid…
• v. (transitive) To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
• v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
• v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while…
• v. (transitive) To write off; to make fun of.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
• n. A negative aspect; a downer.
• n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
• n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
• n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle…
• n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
• n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
• n. Down payment.
• n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping…
• n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as…
• n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• v. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

downcast

• adj. (of eyes) Looking downwards.
• adj. (of a person) Feeling despondent.
• n. (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
• n. (obsolete) A melancholy look.
• n. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw down; to turn downward.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.

downhearted

• adj. sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope.

emit

• v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

forward

• n. (dialectal or obsolete) Agreement; covenant.
• adj. Toward the front or at the front.
• adj. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
• adj. (finance) Expected in the future.
• adj. Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty.
• adj. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
• adv. Towards the front or from the front.
• adv. In the usual direction of travel.
• adv. Into the future.
• v. (transitive) To advance, promote.
• v. (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) to a third party.
• n. (rugby) one of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number…
• n. (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are…
• n. (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
• n. (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than…
• n. (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
• n. (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain…
• n. Misconstruction of foreword.

gear

• n. (uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
• n. Clothing; garments.
• n. (obsolete) goods; property; household items.
• n. (countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices…
• n. (countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio…
• n. (countable) a configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of…
• n. (slang) recreational drugs, including steroids.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) stuff.
• n. (obsolete) business matters; affairs; concern.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
• v. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear…
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
• v. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
• adj. (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic.

grade

• n. A rating.
• n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
• n. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
• n. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage.
• n. (Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
• n. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
• n. An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine).
• n. The level of the ground.
• n. (mathematics) A gradian.
• n. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection…
• n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
• n. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
• n. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
• v. To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
• v. To assign a score to overall academic performance.
• v. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
• v. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make…

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

humbled

• adj. (usually qualifying a first-person pronoun) Grateful for the support of others, touched; honored, flattered.
• adj. Overcome with humility; in awe of the strength of another or one's own weakness.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of humble.

humiliated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of humiliate.
• adj. deprived of dignity or self-respect.

inferior

• adj. of lower quality.
• adj. of lower rank.
• adj. located below.
• adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
• adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
• adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
• adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
• n. a person of lower stature to another.

insufficient

• adj. Not sufficient.

level

• adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
• adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
• adj. Unvaried in frequency.
• adj. Unvaried in volume.
• adj. Calm.
• adj. In the same position or rank.
• adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
• adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
• adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
• n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
• n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
• n. Degree or amount.
• n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
• n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
• n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
• n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
• n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
• n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
• v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
• v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
• v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
• v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
• v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
• v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
• v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
• v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

low-down

• adj. (idiomatic, slang, US) Of no value.

low-level

• adj. relatively unimportant.
• adj. not intense.
• adj. (computing) of, or relating to a program, or to code in which each statement corresponds to a single machine…
• adj. details.

low-lying

• adj. Lower than nearby areas.

low-pitched

• adj. Of a sound, having a comparatively low pitch.

low-spirited

• adj. Disheartened.

lowly

• adj. Not high; not elevated in place; low.
• adj. Low in rank or social importance.
• adj. Not lofty or sublime; humble.
• adj. 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.

miserable

• adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
• adj. Wretched; worthless; mean.
• adj. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
• adj. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
• n. A miserable person; a wretch.

modest

• adj. Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
• adj. Small, moderate in size.
• adj. (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.

moo

• n. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
• n. (Britain, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.
• v. (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
• interj. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.

nether

• adj. Lower; under.
• adj. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
• adv. Down; downward.
• adv. Low; low down.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low;…
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict;…
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel;…
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
• n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
• n. (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

reduced

• v. simple past tense and past participle of reduce.
• adj. Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
• adj. Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price.
• adj. In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.

rock-bottom

• n. Alternative spelling of rock bottom.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) to fall to the lowest possible level.

scummy

• adj. Covered in scum.
• adj. (slang) sleazy, worthless, no good.

scurvy

• n. (medicine) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots…
• adj. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
• adj. Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

soft

• adj. Easily giving way under pressure.
• adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
• adj. (of a sound) Quiet.
• adj. Gentle.
• adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
• adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
• adj. Weak in character; impressible.
• adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
• adj. Not bright or intense.
• adj. Having a slight angle from straight.
• adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant.
• adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless.
• adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized.
• adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
• adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Foolish.
• adj. (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external…
• adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
• adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
• adj. (Britain, of a man) Effeminate.
• adj. Agreeable to the senses.
• adj. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
• interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
• adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
• n. A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

squat

• adj. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
• adj. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
• n. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• n. (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then…
• n. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
• n. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
• n. (slang) Something of no value; nothing.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
• n. (mining) A small vein of ore.
• n. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
• v. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• v. (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across…
• v. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
• v. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or…
• v. (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
• n. The angel shark (genus Squatina).

throaty

• adj. (of a sound) produced in the throat; especially such a sound which is rough or coarse.

under

• prep. In or at a lower level than.
• prep. As a subject of; subordinate to.
• prep. Less than.
• prep. Below the surface of.
• prep. (figuratively) In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
• prep. As, in the character of.
• adv. In a way lower or less than.
• adv. In a way inferior to.
• adv. (informal) In an unconscious state.
• adj. Being lower; being beneath something.

underslung

• adj. supported from above (especially from the underside of a wing etc).
• adj. having a low center of gravity.

unrefined

• adj. crude, raw or unprocessed.
• adj. (of a person) lacking refinement; uncouth.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.