The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABASE , but the solution may also be SADDER which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Lower crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABASE | 24 % | 5 |
| NETHER | 21 % | 6 |
| DEBASE | 8 % | 6 |
| DEMEAN | 7 % | 6 |
| DEPRESS | 6 % | 7 |
| DEMOTE | 6 % | 6 |
| LESS | 3 % | 4 |
| VAIL | 3 % | 4 |
| BASER | 3 % | 5 |
| COW | 3 % | 3 |
| SCOWL | 3 % | 5 |
| DEGRADE | 3 % | 7 |
| DIM | 2 % | 3 |
| DEMIT | 2 % | 5 |
| FROWN | 1 % | 5 |
| UNHOIST | 1 % | 7 |
| BATE | 1 % | 4 |
| REDUCED | 1 % | 7 |
| ABATE | 1 % | 5 |
| DEEPER | 1 % | 6 |
| SEAMIER | 1 % | 7 |
| DROP | 1 % | 4 |
| SADDER | 1 % | 6 |
| DOWN | 1 % | 4 |
Why may SADDER be the right solution?
The word "sadder" is the comparative form of the adjective "sad," which means feeling or showing sorrow. In the context of the clue "Lower," "sadder" can be interpreted as a synonym for feeling down or experiencing a decrease in mood or spirits.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lower
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- inferior
- bottom
- depress
- secondary
- lowly
- subordinate
- junior
- petty
- less
- nether
- infernal
- frown
Crossword Answer definitions
ABASE verb- To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABASE
More clues leading to the result NETHER
- Underground
- Situated below
- Infernal
- Like some regions
- Subterranean
- Lower
- Like hell
- Like hell?
- Under
- Situated below.
More clues leading to the result DEBASE
- Contaminate
- Lower in character
- Take away the dignity of
- Humiliate
- Reduce in value
- Vilify
- Lower
- Adulterate
- Lower in quality
- Corrupt morally
More clues leading to the result DEMEAN
- Take down a peg
- Abase
- Lower in dignity
- Put down
- Cut down to size
- Humble
- Humiliate
- Lower in status
- Take down a few pegs
- Hardly dignify
More clues leading to the result DEPRESS
More clues leading to the result DEMOTE
- Kick downstairs
- Grade down
- Send down the ladder
- Tear a stripe off
- Lower, as rank
- Take down a peg
- Take down a notch
- Take down a peg
- Reduce in rank
- Take away responsiblity
More clues leading to the result LESS
- To a smaller degree
- Comparison word
- Minus
- "Make do" amount
- "__ is more"
- More's alternative
- Not as great
- Not so much
- Without
- More or ____
More clues leading to the result VAIL
- Lower
- Colorado ski area
- Colorado ski resort
- Colorado resort
- Popular Colorado ski resort
- Colorado's ___ Mountain
- Western ski resort
- Resort in the Rockies
- Rockies resort
- Popular Colorado resort
More clues leading to the result BASER
- More contemptible
- Lower than low
- More lowdown
- Not as noble
- More dishonorable
- More despicable
- More vile
- More cowardly
- More degrading
- Less moral
More clues leading to the result COW
- Anthropomorphic "The Far Side" character
- Intimidate
- Awe
- Female whale
- Mooer
- Alleged Chicago Fire starter
- "The Far Side" character, often
- First livestock animal to have its genome mapped
- Ranch figure
- ___ tipping
More clues leading to the result SCOWL
- Black look
- Sid Vicious expression
- Punk's facial expression, often
- Martinet's look
- Look like Scrooge
- Glare
- Glower
- Bitter expression
- Disapproving expression
- Put on an unhappy face
More clues leading to the result DEGRADE
- Put down
- Lower
- Reduce in rank.
- Take down a peg.
- Bring low.
- Humble.
- Lower in rank.
- Lower in status.
- Drag in the dust.
- Bring into contempt
More clues leading to the result DIM
- No rocket scientist
- __ bulb (not too bright)
- Not bright
- Shadowy
- Turn the lights down
- __ bulb (stupid person)
- Not so sharp (and the start of a split order of finger food)
- Indistinct
- Vague
- Barely turned on
More clues leading to the result DEMIT
- Resign
- Relinquish
- Resign or withdraw
- Withdraw from office
- Relinquish, as an office
- Withdraw, as from office
- Redesign, as a job
- Step down
- Abdicate
- To resign.
More clues leading to the result FROWN
- Knit one's brows
- Sign of displeasure
- Look of disapproval
- Look askance
- Look displeased
- Emoticon with a left parenthesis
- Expression of displeasure
- Grim expression
- Disapproving look
- Peevish look
More clues leading to the result UNHOIST
More clues leading to the result BATE
- Ease
- Restrain
- Subside
- Diminish
- Decrease
- Lessen
- Moderate
- Make less intense
- Hold back, as breath
- Lessen in intensity
More clues leading to the result REDUCED
- Lost weight
- On sale
- Sign at a sale
- Lighter
- Cut down
- Marked down.
- Slimmed.
- Store sign.
- Cut
- Like some sentences and fat
More clues leading to the result ABATE
More clues leading to the result DEEPER
- Further down
- More profound
- Kael's __ into Movies
- Farther down
- More thoughtful
- Not as obvious
- Lower
- Less frivolous
- Harder to unravel
- Farther below the water's surface
More clues leading to the result SEAMIER
- More sleazy
- More squalid
- More morally degraded
- More sordid
- Less reputable
- Lower
- More squalid.
- Comparatively less pleasant.
- More shabby
More clues leading to the result DROP
- What you wait for the other shoe to do
- Cease to consider
- Discontinue
- Let fall
- Night deposit
- Knock down
- Pine Bros. unit
- __ leaf table
- Plummet
- Stop doing
More clues leading to the result SADDER
- More decrepit
- More down
- Further down in the dumps
- More depressed
- Relatively sorry
- More glum
- More depressing
- Wiser partner?
- More melancholy
- More bummed