Definition of lowly in English:

lowly

adjective

1Low in status or importance; humble.
‘she was too good for her lowly position’
- ‘Crooks refused to put too much emphasis on the club's lowly league position after all the problems they have encountered this season.’
- ‘For a lowly freshman she sure had a lot of excess attitude.’
- ‘Ah well, at least I can get a concession ticket now, thanks to my lowly student status.’
- ‘The lowly chow of the rural poor has gone highbrow.’
- ‘He came to live among us, not in ‘Buckingham Palace with royalty’ but as a carpenter in a humble home in the lowly village of Nazareth.’
- ‘Brelghtmet will be still be disappointed with their lowly position as a number of their defeats have been close and could have gone either way.’
- ‘Artists might live in a patron's household, as lowly servant or close companion.’
- ‘In the last of the quarter-finals Castleford belied their lowly position to defeat Scarborough.’
- ‘From the lowly clerk, to the highly placed minister, everyone is corrupt.’
- ‘Resigned to his status as a lowly hospital attendant at the Whitestone Sanitarium, Jerome dreams of the day he can once again ply the Hippocratic oath.’
- ‘And like any self-respecting vanguard, this one started under very lowly circumstances.’
- ‘Certainly they rarely showed any sign of looking like champions after a good opening spell, as Kirkcaldy showed a fighting spirit which belied their lowly status.’
- ‘He had status, ultimate power and the chance to win the glory denied him on land by his lowly position in the rigid social hierarchy of 18th - century Britain.’
- ‘I mean after all wasn't Jesus a humble lowly carpenter!’
- ‘A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life.’
- ‘We're lowly freshman, at the hands of the seniors.’
- ‘Despite their relatively lowly beginnings, however, all have even greater power than their predecessors.’
- ‘It was easy for Gabrielle to wish for a Cinderella life, for she was a lowly servant living a life of labor, obedience, and pain.’
- ‘Johnny, too, believes the country community has been given a lowly status by politicians.’
- ‘Despite its lowly status, mucus plays a valuable role in the body.’
humble, low, low-born, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor
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1. 1.1 (of an organism) primitive or simple.
  ‘Darwin's last major publication was a treatise on the lowly earthworm that exemplified the meticulous scientific method that brought him to fame.’
  ‘It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.’
  ‘Even the lowliest creatures ensure they have a decent home before they start breeding.’
  ‘Yet even this lowly creature, which can circumvent sex and simply bud like a clump of daylilies, can mouth a Wnt sentence - and use it to guide development.’

adverb

To a low degree; in a low manner.
‘lowly paid workers’
- ‘He did well to desist: it is impossible to imagine him as the crushed, shuffling Willy Loman, a tragic hero designed for a lowly democratic society.’
- ‘He growled lowly, but then nodded toward her and gestured briskly toward the stage.’
- ‘In lowly expressed genes, gene expression noise may cause a gene's expression level to dip below levels necessary for proper biological functions.’
- ‘‘I figured for five years of absence, I could get a pretty dress and a nice party,’ she said lowly with a half smile.’
- ‘Wouldn't want you to see it before it's perfected, you might think lowly of my skills.’
- ‘He sighed lowly and then emerged from his hiding space.’
- ‘He looked around nervously and grabbed her arm, hissing lowly.’
- ‘He heard his name being called and bowed lowly for everyone to see, but he kept his eyes on her.’
- ‘He finally turned around and said in measured tones lowly, ‘A relationship is built on trust.’’
- ‘Adelaide began to walk slowly down the cobblestone pavement, head hanging lowly, a shadow of her bright, vivacious, jovial self.’
- ‘‘That discussion is not for tonight,’ he said lowly and continued eating.’
- ‘He whispered so lowly it's amazing I even heard him.’
- ‘If he thought so lowly of me, what did everyone else think?’
- ‘The UK remains a relatively lowly taxed country compared with its European partners.’
- ‘Brandon whistled lowly, and I rolled my blue eyes.’