low-lying

US pronunciation

American soundlow lying

lowlying

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final ng sound

low - lying -> low lying

Myanmar meaning

(adj) မြေနိမ့်ပိုင်းဖြစ်သော။

Full entry

low¹ / lǝƱ / adj (-er, -est )

၁။ မမြင့်သော။ နိမ့်သော။ a low wall/ceiling ❍ a low range of hills ❍ flying at a low altitude ❍ a dress with a low neckline ❍ The sun was low in the sky. Compare HIGH adj
၂။ (က) မများသော။ နည်းပါးသော။ နိမ့်ကျသော။ ကျသော။ low wages/prices ❍ low pressure (eg of the atmosphere) ❍ the lowest temperature ever recorded ❍ a low standard of work ❍ a meal that is low in calories ❍ The reservoir was very low after the long drought. (ခ) (esp in compounds) အနည်းငယ်သာ ပါဝင် သော။ နည်းသော။ သက်သာသော။ a low-fat yoghurt ❍ low-alcohol beer ❍ a low-calorie diet ❍ low-cost housing ❍ low-income families.
၃။ အသံနိမ့်သော။ A man’s voice is usually lower than a woman’s.
၄။ မကျယ်လောင် သော။ တိုးသော။ a low rumble of thunder ❍ Keep your voice low.
၅။ အားလျော့သော။ အားနည်းသော။ (စိတ်ဓာတ်) ကျသော။ in a low state of health ❍ feel low/in low spirits / low-spirited.
၆။ အဆင့်အတန်းနိမ့်သော။ (ခန္ဓာ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ) လွယ်သော၊ ရှင်းသော။ lower classes of society ❍ have a low social status ❍ low forms of life (ie creatures having a relatively simple structure).
၇။ အောက်တန်းကျသော။ ပေါ့ပြက်သော။ သာမန်ဖြစ် သော။ low (ie morally unacceptable) cunning ❍ He mixes with some pretty low types.
၈။ အထင်သေးသော။ have a very low opinion of sb ❍ hold sb in low esteem.
၉။ (အလျင်နှုန်း) နှေးသော။ (ဂီယာ)ကြီးသော။ change into a lower gear when going up a hill.
၁၀။ မပူလွန်းသော။ အပူနည်းသော။ cook the vegetables over a low heat ❍ keep the iron on a low setting.
၁၁။ (အလင်းရောင်) မှိန်သော။ turn the lights down low.
adv (-er , -est )
၁။ နိမ့်နိမ့်။ ပျပ်ပျပ်ဝပ်ဝပ်။ aim / shoot low ❍ bow low to the Queen.
၂။ နိမ့်နိမ့်။ I can’t sing as low as that.
၃။ တိုးတိုး။ Speak lower or she’ll hear you!
n
၁။ အနိမ့်။ အနည်း။ The pound has fallen to an all-time low against the dollar ( ie is worth less in exchange for dollars than ever before).
၂။ လေထု ဖိအား နည်းသော ဒေသ၊ ရပ်ဝန်း။ လေချိုင့်။ another low moving in from the Atlantic. Compare HIGH n
❏ at a low ebb [IDM ] ကျဆင်းသော။ (စိတ်ဓာတ်) ကျသော။ Her spirits were at a very low ebb (ie She was very depressed).
❏ be brought low [IDM ] စည်းစိမ်၊ ရာထူး ဆုံးရှုံးသွားသည်။ rich families brought low by the stock market collapse.
❏ be/run low (on sth) [IDM ] ကုန်ခါနီးဖြစ်သည်။ အနည်းငယ်သာကျန်သည်။ The petrol’s running low. ❍ We’re (running) low on petrol.
❏ lay sb low [IDM ] အားနည်းစေသည်။ ဖျားနာကြောင့် လဲနေသည်။ The whole family was laid low by/with (ie was ill and in bed with) flu.
❏ lowermost adj အနိမ့်ဆုံး။ အနည်းဆုံး။
❏ lowest common denominator n (often derog ) သောကောရောကော အကြိုက်။ အများကြိုက်။ pandering to the lowest common denominator of public taste.
❏ low-key adj အကျဉ်းရုံးသော။ ခပ်မှိန်မှိန်။ ခပ်လျှိုလျှို။ The wedding was a very low-key affair. ❍ Officials took a very low-key approach.
❏ low-lying adj မြေနိမ့်ပိုင်းဖြစ်သော။ fog in low-lying areas.
❏ low-paid adj လုပ်ခနည်းသော။ They are among the lowest-paid (workers) in the country.
❏ low-pitched adj အသံနိမ့်သော။ a low-pitched voice. Compare HIGH-PITCHED
❏ low season n (often the low season ) (Brit ) (also off-season ) [sing] အပျော်ခရီးအထွက်ပါးသော။ Compare HIGH SEASON
❏ low tide (also low water ) [U,C] n
(က) ရေစစ်။ ရေကျ။ (ခ) ရေစစ်။ ရေကျ။ ❍ HIGH TIDE
❏ low-water mark n ရေစစ်မှတ်။ ရေကျမှတ်။ Compare HIGH-WATER MARK

low² / lǝƱ / n

နွားအော်သံ၊ တွန်သံ။

More examples

A low wall/bridge/building
The plane was very low.
Low clouds
The tide is low.
People on low incomes
The bigger shops are able to keep their prices low.
Low unemployment
Cook it for five minutes on a low heat.
[in the low 20s/30s etc] : Temperatures are usually around the low 30s at this time of year.
Yoghurt with a low fat content
[low in] : Vegetables are low in fat and calories and high in nutrition.
Stocks were so low that many of the shelves in the shop were empty.
[run/get low (on something)] : A message appears on the screen when you’re running low on disk space.
There was music on and the lights were low.
[run/get low] : Most phones tell you when the battery is running low.
The standard of housing in some areas is very low.
Doing the garden is fairly low on my list of priorities.
[low-priority] : Food will not be sent to low-priority areas until next week.
[low spirits] : It was unlike her to be in such low spirits.
It’s the kind of illness that leaves you feeling low for a few days.
Sandra’s problem is she has really low expectations.
Morale is really low in the office.
He has a very low opinion of his colleagues (=thinks they are not very good).
She finds it difficult to reach the low notes.

Synonyms

near to the ground, low down, short, small, little, squat, stumpy, abject, ailing, at a low level, bad, base, baseborn, baying, beastly, beller, bellow, below, beneath, blue, bottom, bottommost, brutish, caw, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crass, crestfallen, crouched, crude, crumby, cry, cut, cut-rate, dastardly, debilitated, decumbent, deep, deficient, degraded, dejected, depleted, depraved, depressed, depression, depths, despicable, despondent, disgraceful, disheartened, dishonorable, dispirited, disreputable, dizzy, down, down and out, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, dwindling, dying, economical, exhausted, faint, fed up, feeble, ferine, flat, forlorn, frail, gentle, gloomy, glum, gross, ground-level, holler out, humble, hushed, ignoble, ill, ill-bred, in short supply, in the pits, in the power of, inadequate, indisposed, inelegant, inexpensive, inferior, insignificant, junior, lesser, level, living in, low point, low-down, low-grade, low-hanging, low-lying, low-set, low-slung, lowborn, lowering, lowly, marked down, meager, mean, meek, menial, meow, minimal, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, moo, moody, morose, muffled, muted, nadir, nasty, nether, nicker, nickering, nominal, not high, not loud, obscene, obscure, off-color, offensive, paltry, plain, plebeian, poor, poorly, profound, prostrate, puny, quiet, raw, reasonable, reduced, reduced; mediocre, rock-bottom, rough, rude, run-down, sad, scant, scrubby, scruffy, scurvy, second-rate, servile

Antonyms

above, adequate, big, cheerful, clean, clear, complex, complicated, decent, decorated, difficult, elevated, embellished, enormous, enough, excellent, excessive, expensive, full, gay, good, great, happy, healthy, high, honest, honorable, huge, immense, important, increased, intricate, invigorated, joyous, kind, large, liberal, loud, moral, nice, noble, ornate, outrageous, peak, polite, prominent, raised, respectable, restored, rich, significant, sophisticated, strong, substantial, sufficient, superior, tall, unclear, unlimited, unreasonable, upright, valuable, wealthy, well, worthy

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