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loweringadjectivealso louring covered over by cloudsthe lowering sky made us think twice about going to the park beclouded, clouded, cloudy, dull, hazed, hazy, heavy, overcast, overclouded bedimmed, befogged, blackened, darkened, darksome, dim, dimmed, dulled, dusky, misty, murky, obscure, obscured, overshadowedsunlessblack, bleak, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray(also grey), sepulchral, somber(or sombre), sullen clear, cloudless sunlit, sunny, sunshinybrightened, brilliant, dazzling, illuminated, illumined, lit(or lighted), lightened, radiant, shiny harsh and threatening in manner or appearancewe chose our next words carefully, mindful of the lowering expression on his face austere, dour, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim, gruff, intimidating, rough, rugged, severe, stark, steely, stern, ungentle bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympatheticadamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinchingfixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful)immutable, unchangeableblack, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surlybrooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber(or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty benign, benignant, gentle, mild, nonintimidating, tender bland, meek, mellow, soft, soothingeasy, quiet, tranquilagreeable, bright, cheerful, inviting, pleasant, pleasing, sweetglad, happy, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sunnyfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, playful, scatterbrained, silly to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionallyworkmen slowly lowered the heavy statue into place depressing, dropping, throwing, throwing down flattening, flooring, leveling(or levelling)knocking down, knocking over, striking down, topplingplopping, plunking down(or plonking down)bobbling, bungling, foozling, fumblingimmersing, sinking, submerging lifting, picking up, raising to go to a lower level especially abruptlyprices of the new type of televisions lowered considerably as competition and sales increased crashing, cratering, declining, descending, dipping, diving, dropping, falling, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, sinking, skidding, tumbling abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentdecided to lower his career ambitions to something more achievable abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, reducing compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittlingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoubling to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe noise of the jet engine lowered as the plane disappeared in the distance abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyeshow could you lower yourself by passing off someone else's work as your own? abasing, chastening, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, shaming, sinking, smirching, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing to diminish the price or value ofover time, inflation lowers incomes and savings in terms of actual buying power attenuating, breaking, cheapening, depreciating, depressing, devaluating, devaluing, downgrading, marking down, reducing, sinking, writing down, writing off debasing, demonetizingunderestimating, underpricing, underrating, undervaluingabridging, compressing, contracting, de-escalating, deflating, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, moderating, shrinking appreciating, enhancing, marking up, upgrading bloating, blowing up, inflatingoverestimating, overpricing, overrating, overvaluingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, compounding, dilating, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, heightening, increasing, maximizing, multiplying, raising, swelling, upping to take on a gloomy or forbidding lookthe sky lowered overhead, threatening a fierce thunderstorm darkening, glooming, glowering frowning, scowlingglaring, staringbrooding, moping, petting, pouting, sulkingangering, bristling, fuming, raging, steaming, stormingintimidating, menacing, threatening brightening, cheering (up), lightening, perking (up) to look with anger or disapprovalthe motorist lowered at the jerk who had cut in front of her frowning, glaring, glooming, glowering, scowling gaping, gazing, ogling, staringgrimacing, pouting, sulkinggrowling, snarling, sneering, sniggering looking daggers(or staring daggers) beaming, grinning, smiling in the 15th century |