lowering

Significat (anglès)

Verb

present participle and gerund of lower

Noun

The act of something being lowered.

Adj

1. Dark and menacing.
2. That lowers or frowns.
3. Lurking, skulking, menacing.

Noun

Alternative form of louring.

Sinònims

decrease

sullen

reduction

threatening

fall

overcast

abatement

deterioration

dark

cloudy

☁️

letting down

heavy

ominous

abasement

baleful

descending

drop

descent

sinister

sinking

lessening

angry

😠

menacing

depression

degrading

diminution

dip

direful

disrating

droop

dropping

dull

enumeration

failure

falling

frowning

😦

gloomy

grave

🪦

humbling

humiliation

imminent

impendent

impending

louring

low

minacious

minatory

obscure

prolapse

pulling down

reckoning

release

relegation

retrenchment

ruin

scowling

step-down

subsidence

tally

wolfish

reduction to the ranks

presageful

low and deep

being sulky

presagious

abjection

abjectness

adversity

alighting

baneful

below

bringing down

computing

couching

count

🔢

counting

curtailment

cut

decay

decline

declining

decrepitude

degradation

demeaning

demotion

derogation

destruction

diminishing

diminishment

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/

Etimologia (anglès)

c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.