lower

1. 1.

   the lower of two berths

   Synonymslower berth

   Broaderberth

Other forms of lower

plural

lowers·

past tense

lowerred·

present participle

lowerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lower

What does lower mean?

lower means "move something or somebody to a lower position". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lower?

lower has 2 syllables: lo-wer. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /ˈloʊɚ/.

What is another word for lower?

Close synonyms include take down, let down, get down, bring down, lour. 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.

What is the opposite of lower?

The recorded antonyms are raise.

Is lower a common word?

lower is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.