low water

1. 1.

   the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide

   Synonymslow tide

   Broadertide

Questions about low water

What does low water mean?

low water means "the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide".

What is another word for low water?

Close synonyms include low tide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is low water a common word?

low water is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.