lowest
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈləʊ.ɪst/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈloʊ.ɪst/
Adjective
lowest
- superlative form of low: most low
- Yang says he remembers being able to see the glacier’s lowest edge from his home village. But that time has passed.
- 1958 August, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 520:
- At the lowest point, a short length of tunnel was driven alongside the up line, with a cross passage, to serve as a sump and pump house for dealing with any accumulation of water.
Derived terms
Adverb
lowest