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Definitions for Lowering

[1] dark and threatening, as the sky, clouds, or weather; overcast; gloomy: lowering skies.
[2] frowning or sullen, as the face or gaze; scowling; angry.
[3] to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
[4] to make lower in height or level: to lower the water in a canal.
[5] to reduce in amount, price, degree, force, etc.
[6] to make less loud: Please lower your voice.
[7] to bring down in rank or estimation; degrade; humble; abase (oneself), as by some sacrifice of self-respect or dignity: His bad actions lowered him in my eyes.
[8] Music . to make lower in pitch; flatten.
[9] Phonetics . to alter the articulation of (a vowel) by increasing the distance of the tongue downward from the palate: The vowel of “clerk” is lowered to ( ä) in the British pronunciation.
[10] to become lower, grow less, or diminish, as in amount, intensity, or degree: The brook lowers in early summer. Stock prices rise and lower constantly.
[11] to descend; sink: the sun lowering in the west.
[12] comparative of low1.
[13] of or relating to those portions of a river farthest from the source.
[14] (often initial capital letter ) Stratigraphy . noting an early division of a period, system, or the like: the Lower Devonian.
[15] a denture for the lower jaw.
[16] a lower berth.
[17] to be dark and threatening, as the sky or the weather.
[18] to frown, scowl, or look sullen; glower: He lowers at people when he's in a bad mood.
[19] a dark, threatening appearance, as of the sky or weather.
[20] a frown or scowl.
[21] being below one or more other things the lower shelf ; the lower animals
[22] reduced in amount or value a lower price
[23] maths (of a limit or bound) less than or equal to one or more numbers or variables
[24] (sometimes capital) geology denoting the early part or division of a period, system, formation, etc Lower Silurian
[25] (tr) to cause to become low or on a lower level; bring, put, or cause to move down
[26] (tr) to reduce or bring down in estimation, dignity, value, etc to lower oneself
[27] to reduce or be reduced to lower one's confidence
[28] (tr) to make quieter to lower the radio
[29] (tr) to reduce the pitch of
[30] (tr) phonetics to modify the articulation of (a vowel) by bringing the tongue further away from the roof of the mouth
[31] (intr) to diminish or become less
[32] (esp of the sky, weather, etc) to be overcast, dark, and menacing
[33] to scowl or frown
[34] a menacing scowl or appearance

Words related to Lowering

menacing, heavy, overcast, gloomy, ominous

Words nearby Lowering

lower world, lower-case letters, lower-class, lowercase, lowerclassman, lowering, lowermost, lowery, lowes, lowest common denominator, lowest common multiple

Origin of Lowering

21250–1300; Middle English lour (noun), louren (v.) to frown, lurk; akin to German lauern, Dutch loeren

Other words from Lowering

low·er·ing·ly , adverb
low·er·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Lowering

C12 (comparative of low 1 ); C17 (vb)

Synonyms for Lowering

heavy, menacing, overcast, overhanging, gloomy, ominous