lower

/ˈloʊər/

意味: 下部、下位

例文: Aki stored secrets in the drawer’s lower section.
　　  アキが引き出しの下段に秘密をしまった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: lower price(価格を下げる), lower level(低いレベル), lower voice(声を低くする)

定義: 何かを下げる、または低くすることを意味します。物の位置や高さを下げたり、音量や価格を低くすることができます。また、地位や評価が低くなることも指します。

lowerは約8,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the lower of two berths
Verb: move something or somebody to a lower position
Verb: set lower
Verb: make lower or quieter
Verb: cause to drop or sink
Verb: look angry or sullen, wrinkle one’s forehead, as if to signal disapproval
Adjective: less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
Adjective: literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
Adjective: very low in volume
Adjective: unrefined in character
Adjective: used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
Adjective: of the most contemptible kind
Adjective: low or inferior in station or quality
Adjective: no longer sufficient
Adjective: subdued or brought low in condition or status
Adjective: filled with melancholy and despondency

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Please lower the volume during the meeting.(会議中は音量を下げてください。)
The company plans to lower prices next month.(会社は来月、価格を引き下げる予定です。)
She tried to lower her stress by meditating daily.(彼女は毎日瞑想してストレスを減らそうとした。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: take down the vase from the shelf
Verb: lower a rating
Verb: lower expectations
Verb: turn down the volume of a radio
Verb: The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir
Adjective: low prices
Adjective: the reservoir is low
Adjective: low ceilings
Adjective: low clouds
Adjective: low hills
Adjective: the sun is low
Adjective: low furniture
Adjective: a low bow
Adjective: a low murmur
Adjective: the low-toned murmur of the surf
Adjective: low comedy
Adjective: abject cowardice
Adjective: a low stunt to pull
Adjective: a low-down sneak
Adjective: his miserable treatment of his family
Adjective: You miserable skunk!
Adjective: a scummy rabble
Adjective: a scurvy trick
Adjective: a humble cottage
Adjective: a lowly parish priest
Adjective: a modest man of the people
Adjective: small beginnings
Adjective: supplies are low
Adjective: our funds are depleted
Adjective: brought low
Adjective: a broken man
Adjective: his broken spirit
Adjective: gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
Adjective: gloomy predictions
Adjective: a gloomy silence
Adjective: took a grim view of the economy
Adjective: the darkening mood
Adjective: lonely and blue in a strange city
Adjective: depressed by the loss of his job
Adjective: a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
Adjective: downcast after his defeat
Adjective: feeling discouraged and downhearted

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): abject, blue, bring down, broken, crushed, depleted, depress, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, frown, get down, gloomy, glower, grim, humble, humbled, humiliated, let down, lour, low, low-down, low-pitched, low-spirited, low-toned, lower, lower berth, lowly, miserable, modest, scummy, scurvy, small, take down, turn down

Antonyms(反意語): high, raise

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): berth, change, decrease, devalue, grimace, move

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abridge, accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, advance, affect, age, agitate, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, beat, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blow, blunt, blur, boil, brandish, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, center, centralize, change hands, change intensity, change taste, charge, chase away, chasten, check, circularize, circulate, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, cut, damage, dandle, darken, de-emphasize, de-escalate, deaden, deaminate, debase, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, depreciate, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, diminish, dinge, dirty, disable, disarrange, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, dislocate, disorder, displace, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, drag, draw, drive, drop, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, engage, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, expel, extend, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flick, flocculate, fluctuate, freeze, frenchify, frown, full, funnel, gelatinize, glamorize, glide, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, herd, hit, hue, humanize, humble, hustle, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, jar, laicize, lateralize, launch, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, limit, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lower berth, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mechanize, militarize, mince, minimize, mitigate, mix, mobilize, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, overturn, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, pare, patent, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, play, poison, polarize, politicize, port, pour, pout, press down, professionalize, proof, propel, prostrate, pull, pulse, pump, purify, push, put, race, radicalize, raise, rake, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, reduce, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, relocate, remodel, restore, revolutionize, right, ripen, rock, roll, romanticize, round off, rout out, run, rusticate, saltate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, scan, schematize, scramble, screw up, send, sensitize, sentimentalize, separate, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, shrink, simplify, singsong, sink, slack, slake, slenderize, slide, sling, slip, smile, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, spill, sputter, squint, stabilize, stain, station, steepen, stiffen, still, stir, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suppress, suspend, sweeten, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, take back, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfer, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmit, transmute, transport, transpose, tug, turn, turn back, turn down, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unseat, unsex, untie, untune, unwind, upper berth, uproot, upstage, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, wash, weaken, weaponize, wedge, wet, whistle, widen, wince, wind, woosh, work, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): depress, derate, dip, incline, reef, scowl, subordinate

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: depressor, dispiritedness, downheartedness, frown, gloominess, glower, humbleness, low-spiritedness, lower, lowering, lowness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative, sadness