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lowlyadjective belonging to the class of people of low social or economic ranka tycoon who struggled all his life to overcome his lowly origins baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, inferior, low, low-life, lowborn, lower-class, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, unwashed, vulgar bourgeois, middle-classplain, poor, simple, working-classdéclassé, down-market, downscale aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn eminent, illustrious, notable, prominent not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showinessthe nuns at the convent regard themselves as lowly servants of the Lord demure, down-to-earth, humble, meek, modest, unassuming, unpretentious acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, yieldingcowering, cringing, shrinkingingenuous, naive(or naïve), plain, simple, unaffectedbashful, diffident, introverted, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, sheepish, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusiveaw-shucks, self-deprecating, self-deprecatory, self-effacing arrogant, bumptious, chesty, conceited, egotistic(or egotistical), fastuous, haughty, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppity aggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucycocksure, cocky, confident, hubristic, overconfident, self-confidentegocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), narcissistic, prideful, self-affected, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-engrossed, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headedboastful, bombastic, braggy, swaggering, vain, vaingloriouscondescending, disdainful, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, overbearing, patronizing, pontificatingflamboyant, ostentatious, showyextroverted(also extraverted), immodest, outgoing, uninhibited, unreserved lowlyadverbin a manner showing no signs of pride or self-assertionlowly bowing before his king, he accepted his knighthood abjectly, deferentially, hat in hand, humbly, meanly, meekly, modestly, sheepishly, submissively obsequiously, servilely, subservientlyfearfully, mousily, timidlybashfully, diffidently, self-deprecatingly, shyly, timorouslycivilly, courteously, politely, respectfully, suppliantly cap in hand arrogantly, audaciously, boldly, brashly, brazenly, contemptuously, haughtily, huffily, imperiously, loftily, pompously, presumptuously, pretentiously, pridefully, proudly, scornfully, self-importantly, superciliously, swaggeringly, uppishly fearlesslydiscourteously, disdainfully, disrespectfully, impertinently, rashly, recklessly, saucilybitchily, impolitely, impudently, rudely, uncivilly, ungraciously in the 14th century |