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lowly | null |

As an adjective lowly

is not high; not elevated in place; low.

As an adverb lowly

is in a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

lowly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Not high; not elevated in place; low.
  • * Dryden
  • lowly lands
  • Low in rank or social importance.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • One common right the great and lowly claims.
  • Not lofty or sublime; humble.
  • * Dryden
  • these rural poems, and their lowly strain
  • Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
  • * Bible, Matthew xi. 29
  • Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
  • *, Bk.XXI, Ch.x:
  • *:And there was none of these other knyghtes but they redde in bookes and holpe for to synge Masse, and range bellys, and dyd lowly al maner of servyce.
  • In a low condition; meanly.
  • null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----