Sekirov Dictionary

lowering

/ˈlaʊərɪŋ/

adjective 3
/ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

•
Dark and menacing.
- The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead. — 1947
•
That lowers or frowns.
- A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows. — 2013
•
Lurking, skulking, menacing.
- They might have stayed until dusk, undisturbed by Schmidt's casual customers, had it not been for the entrance of three grimy and lowering men. — 1906

lowering

UK /ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/US /ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/

noun2

The act of something being lowered.
A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes lower.

forms

lowerings · more lowering · most lowering

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