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lowly ()

adjective -·lier, -·li·est

  1. of or suited to a low position or rank
  2. humble; meek
  3. ordinary; commonplace

adverb -·lier, -·li·est

  1. humbly; meekly
  2. in a low manner, position, etc.
  3. low in sound; softly; gently

lowly Related Forms
low·li·ness noun
lowly Synonyms

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lowly Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • heart: Do you recall the Lord Jesus said, " I am meek and lowly of heart.

Used with adjective complement

  • score: The price and range of food, opening hours and quality of food all scored relatively lowly.
  • entertain: We have secured third spot in the league and entertain lowly Weybridge at home on Saturday with a shot at remaining unbeaten this year.
  • rank: At a mere 30 miles, it ranks lowly among important roads in Scotland.
  • consider: However, he was refused; as a curate, Kilvert was considered too lowly a match for the daughter of a landed family.

Modifies a noun

  • shepherd: Why did He pick lowly shepherds to be the witnesses of this divine beginning?
  • clerk: George Starling was a lowly paid clerk who had married his secretary who then gave up work to run the marital home.
  • peasant: He decided that he would resign his kingship and become a lowly peasant himself.
  • servant: Alexander the Great, once gave a magnificent golden cup to one of his lowly servants.
  • position: Position: 15th How do you account for your lowly position?
  • beginning: Micah begins by focusing on the Messiah's lowly human beginnings.

Modifying Another Word

  • relatively: Duncan senior had himself spent some time in the relatively lowly position of a ship's surgeon.
  • however: In evolutionary terms we are all linked together in time and linked even with every other creature on earth however lowly.
  • too: However, he was refused; as a curate, Kilvert was considered too lowly a match for the daughter of a landed family.
  • so: Now it turns out that the intestines are not so lowly after all.
  • very: There are no rooms, only suites, of which mine was a very lowly variety.
  • fairly: Considering the fairly lowly memory used with it, this is a quite impressive score.

Preposition: in

  • heart: Then let me ask, are you walking in the steps of your Master who was " meek and lowly in heart " ?
  • spirit: They laid the greatest stress on being meek and lowly in spirit.

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