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loving-kindness, n. tenderness, mercy, compa.s.sion.
low, a. depressed; base, mean, vulgar, raffish, ignominious, undignified; moderate, reasonable, cheap; humble, lowly, obscure; feeble, faint, weak; subdued, grave, gentle; ign.o.ble, groveling, abject, degraded, servile, menial, sordid, base.
low, adv. softly, _sotto voce_.
low, v. moo.
lowborn, a. baseborn, plebeian.
lowbred, a. unrefined, illbred, vulgar, rude.
lower, v. drop; depress, reduce; decrease, diminish, fall, humble, humiliate, degrade, abash, detrude, dishonor; frown, scowl, glower, look sullen.
lower, a. nether, under.
lower cla.s.ses. proletariat, proletariate, proletarians.
lowering, a. threatening, dark, sullen.
lowest, a. nethermost.
lowest point. nadir.
low life. obscurity.
lowliness, n. humility, meekness, self-abas.e.m.e.nt.
low-lived, a. mean, dishonorable, ignominious, base.
lowly, a. humble, meek, una.s.suming.
low-minded, a. groveling, abject, sordid, base-minded.
loyal, a. true, constant, faithful, devoted, stanch, unwavering.
loyalty, n. fidelity, constancy, faithfulness, devotion, fealty, allegiance.
lozenge, n. tablet, troche, pastille.
lubber, n. boor, lout, b.u.mpkin, looby, gawk, churl, lummox.
lubberly, a. boorish, loutish, gawky, clumsy, ungainly.
lucid, a. See clear.
lucidity, n. See clearness.
luck, n. fortune, chance, fortuity, haphazard, chance, hap-hazard.
a.s.sociated Words: mascot, hoodoo.
luckless, a. See unlucky.
lucky, a. fortunate; favorable, auspicious, propitious.
lucrative, a. See profitable.
ludicrous, a. comical, ridiculous. See funny.
lug, v. drag, pull, tug, haul.
luggage, n. baggage, traps.
lugubrious, a. mournful, doleful, sorrowful, woful.
lukewarm, a. tepid; indifferent, cool, unconcerned.
lukewarmness, n. tepidity; indifference, unconcern, coolness.
lull, v. hush, still, quiet, tranquillize; subside, abate.
lull, n. calm, calmness, subsidence.
lumbering, a. unwieldy, ponderous, c.u.mbersome, ungraceful.
luminous, a. See bright.
lummox, n. (Low) b.o.o.by, gawk, lout, lubber, yahoo, b.u.mpkin, boor.
lump, n. ma.s.s, aggregation, aggregate.--v. ma.s.s, ama.s.s.
lumpish, a. inert, heavy; stupid, dull, stolid.
lumpy jaw. actinomycosis.
lunatic, n. madman, maniac, bedlamite.
lunch, n. luncheon, refection.
luncheon, n. collation, refreshment, nuncheon, tiffin.
lunge, v. allonge, longe, thrust.
lungs, n. pl. lights (lungs of an animal or bird). a.s.sociated words: pulmonary, pulmonic, pneumonic, pleura, pleural lobe, spirometer, pneumology.
lurch, v. sway, stagger, roll; dodge, shift, evade, bilk.
lure, n. decoy, enticement, bait.
