lowly
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈloʊli/
- What has become of the earth that the lowly are made lords and the lords are laid low?
- a lowly worker
- a lowly position
- lowly status
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Watch on YouTubeI'm just the lowly writer who come up with the script, right?
- I'm just the lowly writer who come up with the script, right?
- So I'm saying to myself, what is this lowly pilot doing with a Swiss bank account?
- And then finally the the lowly egg yolk.
- One is Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, and the other is lowly graduate student.
- And I went as a lowly representative of a women's rights organization.
- Sit down and you feel ashamed and, and, and you know, lowly and that stays with you.
- But really, to attain very lowly things and is is often to our detriments.
- You know, I, I am so close with people that I was dragged through the mud with, you know, as lowly assistance at an agency.
Examples
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This was the idea of the lowly secretary.
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Lewis Strauss was once a lowly shoe salesman.
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And me, just a lowly country nobody.
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- What brought you to this lowly state?
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It's your heart is what's going to make you fly above everything, above all the lowly stuff on earth.
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Working a field and picking cotton like a lowly hand.
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You know, people think of arts and crafts as like lowly as a hobby.
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I'm just the lowly writer who come up with the script, right?
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Freshmen were labeled rats to reflect the attitude of upperclassmen that they were the lowly ones on campus.
Academic text (2013) -
This was the idea of the lowly secretary.
Synonyms
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1.3
Having little social rank or importance
243
3.5
Less important than the main thing or coming after it
226
3.7
Small and unimportant in position or power
100
1.0
At the bottom in rank or importance in a group
96
3.3
A position with little power in an organization
83
2.7
Not thinking you are better than others and not boasting
54
3.4
From a low social rank or simple background
38
4.7
Someone treated as less important and given fewer rights or benefits
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4.9
From the lowest social or economic group and seen as having low status
22
5.4
Work that does not need much skill, like cleaning or carrying things
13
3.5
People who have little money, little education, or low social status
8
3.8
A person who has a less important job or less power in an organization
3
4.1
Having lower rank or position in a workplace
1
7.4
A person from a family that is not rich or important
1
9.9
Lower in rank or status than other people in the same group
1
9.9
A person who is born into a low social class and not into a noble family
From a family without titles or high social rank
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Etymology
Lowly comes from the simple word low, which means 'near the ground' or 'not high', plus the ending -ly that makes a describing word. So a lowly person is 'low' in position or importance, humble like someone close to the ground.