| Concept: | Lowness. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
lowness; debasement, depression, prostration (horizontal); depression (concave)., molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee; cellar; hold; feet, heels., low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide.
-verbs
be low; lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch, wallow, grovel; lower (depress).
-adjectives
low, neap, debased; nethermost; flat, level with the ground; lying low; crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate (horizontal).
-adverbs
under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown, at the foot of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb; below par.
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| Antonyms: | height |
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| Main Entry: | depth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distance down or across |
| Synonyms: | base, bottom, declination, deepness, draft, drop, expanse, extent, fathomage, intensity, lower register, lowness, measure, measurement, pit, pitch, profoundness, profundity, remoteness, sounding |
| Antonyms: | height |
| Main Entry: | ignominy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offensive behavior |
| Synonyms: | baseness, disgrace, lowness, meanness, sordidness |
| Main Entry: | baby blues |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | postnatal depression |
| Synonyms: | depression, downheartedness, dumps, eyes, heaviness of heart, low spirits, lowness, melancholy, peepers, postpartum depression |
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Concept: | Depth. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
depth; deepness; profundity, depression (concavity)., hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell., soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.
-verbs
be deep; render deep; deepen., plunge; sound, heave the lead, take soundings; dig (excavate).
-adjectives
deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, burried; submerged; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterrene; underground., bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal; deep as a well; bathycolpian; benthal, benthopelagic; downreaching, yawning., knee deep, ankle deep.
-adverbs
beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears.
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| Antonyms: | shallowness |
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| Concept: | Depression. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
lowering; depression; dip (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
-verbs
depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal).
-adjectives
depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive.
-phrases
facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
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| Antonyms: | elevation |
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