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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in a lower place |
| Synonyms: | below, underneath |
| Antonyms: | above, higher, over |
| Main Entry: | below |
| Part of Speech: | adverb, preposition |
| Definition: | lower |
| Synonyms: | beneath, down, down from, under, underneath |
| Antonyms: | above, over |
| Main Entry: | deep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extending very far, usually down |
| Synonyms: | abysmal, abyssal, below, beneath, bottomless, broad, buried, deep-seated, distant, downreaching, far, fathomless, immersed, inmost, low, profound, rooted, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, subterranean, sunk, underground, unfathomable, wide, yawning |
| Antonyms: | shallow |
| Main Entry: | less |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smaller, inferior |
| Synonyms: | beneath, declined, deficient, depressed, diminished, excepting, fewer, lacking, lesser, limited, lower, minor, minus, negative, not as great, reduced, secondary, shortened, shorter, slighter, subordinate, subtracting, unsubstantial, without |
| Notes: | fewer means a smaller number of individual things and less means a small quantity of something. A traditional rule of English usage holds that less should be used only of uncountable things, that is, things that can be measured but not counted as discrete units. Thus "less electricity," "less than a quart, " "less doubt." Fewer, on the other hand, should be used only of things that can be counted: "fewer people," "fewer cars." In actual usage, fewer almost always adheres to the traditional rule; the problem is that less is often used with countable things. generally, less applies to quantity while fewer applies to number; the traditional rule says that you should use fewer for things that can be counted (fewer than four players) but less with mass terms for things of measurable extent (less paper, less than a gallon of paint) |
| Antonyms: | bigger, more, superior |
| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | close to the ground; short |
| Synonyms: | below, beneath, bottom, bottommost, crouched, decumbent, deep, depressed, flat, ground-level, inferior, junior, lesser, level, little, low-hanging, low-lying, low-set, lowering, minor, nether, not high, profound, prostrate, rock-bottom, shallow, small, squat, squatty, stunted, subjacent, subsided, sunken, under, unelevated |
| Antonyms: | above, high, tall |
| Main Entry: | off |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | apart, away |
| Synonyms: | above, absent, afar, ahead, aside, away from, behind, below, beneath, beside, disappearing, divergent, elsewhere, far, farther away, gone away, in the distance, not here, out, over, removed, to one side, turning aside, up front, vanishing |
| Antonyms: | close, here, present |
| Main Entry: | under |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | below |
| Synonyms: | beneath, bottom, concealed by, covered by, down, downward, held down, inferior, lower, nether, on the bottom, on the nether side, on the underside, pinned, pressed down, supporting, to the bottom, underneath |
| Antonyms: | above, higher, more, over, up, upward |
| Main Entry: | underneath |
| Part of Speech: | adverb, preposition |
| Definition: | below |
| Synonyms: | beneath, bottom, covered, lower, neath, nether, under |
| Antonyms: | above, over, up |
| Main Entry: | unworthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not of value |
| Synonyms: | base, beneath, blamable, contemptible, degrading, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, good-for-nothing, ignoble, improper, inappropriate, ineligible, inexcusable, no-account, no-good, not deserving, not fit, not good enough, not worth, nothing, offensive, out of place, recreant, reprehensible, shameful, unbecoming, unbefitting, undeserving, unfit, unmerited, unseemly, unsuitable, valueless, vile, wretched, wrong |
| Antonyms: | honorable, useful, valuable, worthwhile, worthy |
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