lowering :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (2)

n. the act of causing to become less

n. the act of causing something to move to a lower level

Verbs (0)

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (3)

dark, heavy, threatening

adj. darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

Fuzzynyms (8)

n. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

waterloo, Waterloo

n. a final crushing defeat; "he met his waterloo"

n. a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"

reduction, simplification

n. the act of reducing complexity

Synonyms (18)

foggy, brumous, hazy, misty

adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning"

overcast, cloud-covered, clouded, sunless

adj. filled or abounding with clouds

cloudlike, nebular

adj. resembling a cloud

gray, grey, leaden, sullen

adj. darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a grey rainy afternoon"; "grey clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"

miasmal, miasmic, vaporous

adj. filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog"

adj. clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog; "the smoggy atmosphere of Los Angeles"

Antonyms (9)

fair, unclouded, cloudless

adj. free from clouds; "under a cloudless sky"

adj. lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"

adj. emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices

inferior, deficient, substandard

adj. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

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