lowly

  • (s) low or inferior in station or quality
    • a humble cottage
    • a lowly parish priest
    • a modest man of the people
    • small beginnings
    humble, modest, small, low,
  • (s) inferior in rank or status
    • the junior faculty
    • a lowly corporal
    • petty officialdom
    • a subordinate functionary
    junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, subaltern, secondary,
  • (s) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) menial, humble,
  • (s) of low birth or station ("base" is archaic in this sense)
    • baseborn wretches with dirty faces
    • of humble (or lowly) birth
    baseborn, base, humble,

Synonyms

humble modest small low junior-grade lower-ranking petty subaltern secondary menial baseborn base

Words of close approximity

lowan lower Lowry