Lowering

Quick meaning: Lowering is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of lower.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of lower.

More Meanings

1. The act of something being lowered.
2. (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes lower.
3. (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.
4. That lowers or frowns.
5. Lurking, skulking, menacing.
6. Alternative form of louring.

Example Sentences

Bleak fields stretched to the horizon beneath lowering clouds.

Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.

Jon crossed the pass into Glen Maraich in a stinging flurry of sleet, heading down between dark walls of rock under a lowering sky.

A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows.

Word Forms

• lowerings

Synonyms for lowering

Depending on context, synonyms include gloomy, threatening, frowning, scowling, sullen, glowering.

Antonyms for lowering

Common opposites include raising.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include threatening, heavy, sullen, cloudy, subsiding, decrease.

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