lowery

adjective

variants also loury
Definition of lowerynext
as in lowering

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lowery
  1. negative
  2. oppressive
  3. menacing
  4. threatening
  5. grim
  6. drab
  7. dour
  8. dull
Adjective
  • Protection Challenges: Children in crisis are particularly vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and neglect; in Syria, 85 percent of all households struggle to make ends meet, increasing their risks of turning to child labor and other negative coping mechanisms.
    Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • To limit those negative responses, the site is adjusting its user input tools, and will end the conversations of users who submit content that violates the site's terms of service and community guidelines.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of negative
Adjective
  • The ongoing siege at the Argentine embassy in Caracas is a stark reminder of the oppressive lengths to which Nicolás Maduro’s regime will go to silence dissent.
    David Smolansky, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But that sensibility seems especially widespread right now at the tail end of an already challenging year, and on the precipice of what is bound to be an exhausting, oppressive period.
    James Factora, Them, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of oppressive
Adjective
  • Egerton and Bateman are both fantastic in this, and who knew Michael Bluth could be this level of menacing?
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In the memo obtained by WIRED, DHS displays less confidence in its ability to detect menacing drones.
    Dell Cameron, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of menacing
Adjective
  • Penny’s lawyers, on the other hand, portrayed him as a good Samaritan being unfairly punished for trying to help fellow passengers through a frightening moment when the homeless man entered the train in what several said was a threatening manner.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The defense’s case focused on emphasizing Neely’s threatening behavior, character witnesses from Penny’s time in the US Marines and challenges to the medical cause of Neely’s death.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of threatening
Adjective
  • Oracle’s grim forecast Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Oracle shares fell 7% in extended trading on Monday after the database software company reported fiscal second-quarter results that fell short of analysts’ estimates.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
  • When tragedy ultimately strikes, paralysis is the commonality between each character, and the outlook for intermarried social warfare is decidedly grim.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of grim
Adjective
  • After centuries of weathering and exposure, the colors seen in historical homes today can appear muted and buttoned-up, even drab.
    Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Ask it to design a striking user interface and the results are drab, says Krish Manair, an engineer at data labeling company Labelbox, who tested the tool’s web app creation skills.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of drab
Adjective
  • Susquehanna also embraced a dour view of the overall market with sales of the SPDR S&P 500 and Invesco QQQ Trust ETFs.
    John Dobosz, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Target gave a dour forecast for the holiday shopping season, for example, while Walmart gave a much more encouraging outlook.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of dour
Adjective
  • While congressional hearings are often dull set pieces, this one offered a remarkably lively and informative discussion of the practicalities and opportunities facing America regarding space resources.
    Greg Autry, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • For her, the glory of the honeymoon had been in the planning, the dreaming, the building up in her mind; what a letdown to find that Paris was just a place, that some days were full of chill gray drizzle, that the dull, thick bodies of other tourists blocked her from full joy.
    Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of dull
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