Antonyms for lowering
ˈlaʊ ər ɪŋ, ˈlaʊər ɪŋlow·er·ing

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1. lowering

   Synonyms:
   dark, threatening, gloomy, murky, lurid, overcast

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1. • Decrease

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1. loweringnoun

   the act of causing to become less

   Antonyms:
   clear

   Synonyms:
   letting down

2. lowering, letting downadjective

   the act of causing something to move to a lower level

   Antonyms:
   clear

   Synonyms:
   letting down

3. heavy, lowering, sullen, threateningadjective

   darkened by clouds

   "a heavy sky"

   Antonyms:
   clear

   Synonyms:
   ominous, laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, forbidding, with child(p), sound, dark, wakeless, dense, grueling, dour, heavy(p), threatening, grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), baleful, clayey, enceinte, minatory, menacing, grievous, glowering, fleshy, sour, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, saturnine, heavy, arduous, big(a), labored, moody, morose, punishing, glum, gravid, big(p), minacious, leaden, sinister

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1. loweringadjective

   Synonyms:
   threatening, dark, sullen

How to use lowering in a sentence?

1. Joe McMonigle:

   I worry dramatically lowering inventories will be seen as bullish for prices by the market.

2. Doug Williamson:

   An analogy to this would be cholesterol-lowering drugs and heart disease.

3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   I demand these ministers stop their undermining, stop the attacks, i demand that they close ranks behind the proper policy for leading the nation - for its security, economy and lowering the cost of living, in every aspect. If they agree to do so, we can continue to work together. If they refuse, we will draw conclusions, and go to the voter.

4. Andy Hamilton:

   They're concerned that this might result in the lowering of the standards in what are currently our male-only occupations, and that would then reflect on either them or on the women who come into those occupations.

5. Jonathan Turley:

   I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. I believe this impeachment not only fails to satisfy the standard of past impeachments but would create a dangerous precedent for future impeachments.

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