lowlife

Other forms of lowlife

plural

lowlives·

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 lowlife

What does lowlife mean?

lowlife means "a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible".

How many syllables are in lowlife?

lowlife has 2 syllables and divides as low-life under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lowlife?

Close synonyms include rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker. 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 lowlife a common word?

lowlife is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.