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Synonyms for lowering

  • adjective
  • noun

Most common

sullen cloudy gloomy dark threatening heavy

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Sullen — that lowers or frowns

sullen, cloudy, gloomy, dark, black, sinister, clouded, murky, overcast

2. Threatening

threatening, heavy

Noun

decrease, reduction, abatement, fall, diminution, depression, decrement, deduction, abasement, lessening, detrusion dated

Antonyms

clear, lifting, raising

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    That lowers or frowns.

  2. adj. 2

    Dark and menacing.

  3. n. 1

    The act of something being lowered.

Related words

Other spellings
louring

Forms

Plural
lowerings → decreases, reductions, abatements, falls…

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
loweringsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
fall1, dark1
5 letters
black1, heavy2, murky2
6 letters
cloudy2, gloomy2, sullen2
7 letters
clouded2
8 letters
decrease2, sinister3, overcast3
9 letters
reduction3, deduction3, lessening3, abatement3, decrement, abasement, detrusion
10 letters
depression3, diminution4
11 letters
threatening3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heavy2 = 2 syllables).