lowery

[ lou-uh-ree, louuhr-ee ]
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adjective
  1. dark and gloomy; threatening: a lowery sky.

Origin of lowery

1
1640–50; earlier lowry.See lower2, -y1

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How to use lowery in a sentence

  • E may safely interpret a lowery day in haying time as a providential hint to go fishing.

    Days in the Open | Lathan A. Crandall
  • Tom lowery's family had been military; he claimed to have been a member of the last graduating class ever to leave West Point.

    This Crowded Earth | Robert Bloch
  • The sky was lowery, and the sandy road heavy with the recent rain, when we started.

    Among the Pines | James R. Gilmore
  • It was a dark, lowery morning, not very inviting abroad, for an April shower was then falling.

  • Grizek was dead, but Bassett and Tom lowery remained and they cooperated.

    This Crowded Earth | Robert Bloch