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Meaning of lowly in English
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Classifying Adjective
lowly
Definitions
1.
low or inferior in station or quality
Examples
« a humble cottage »
« a lowly parish priest »
« a modest man of the people »
« small beginnings »
Synonyms
inferior
2.
inferior in rank or status
Examples
« the junior faculty »
« a lowly corporal »
« petty officialdom »
« a subordinate functionary »
Synonyms
junior
3.
used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
Synonyms
unskilled
4.
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
Examples
« baseborn wretches with dirty faces »
« of humble (or lowly) birth »
Synonyms
lowborn