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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | below; physically lower |
| Synonyms: | bottomward, cascading, declining, depressed, descending, downgrade, downhill, downward, dropping, earthward, falling, gravitating, groundward, inferior, nether, precipitating, sagging, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, subjacent, to the bottom, under, underneath |
| Antonyms: | above, higher |
| Main Entry: | infernal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damned; underworld |
| Synonyms: | accursed, blamed, blasted, chthonian, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, demonic, devilish, diabolical, execrable, fiendish, hellish, lower, malevolent, malicious, monstrous, nether, satanic, subterranean, sulphurous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | lesser |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, secondary |
| Synonyms: | a notch under, bottom, bush, bush-league, dinky, insignificant, less important, low, lower, minor, minor-league, nether, second-fiddle, second-string, slighter, small, small-fry, small-time, subjacent, subordinate, third-string, undersized |
| Antonyms: | greater, higher, major, 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: | lower |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under, inferior |
| Synonyms: | bush-league, curtailed, decreased, diminished, junior, lessened, lesser, low, lower rung, minor, nether, pared down, reduced, second-class, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, smaller, subjacent, subordinate, under |
| Antonyms: | higher, important, superior |
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| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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