nether
About 0.51 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Lower; under.
The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
- adjective Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
the nether regions
- adverb Down; downward.
- adverb Low; low down.
- proper noun Alternative letter-case form of the Nether.
- verb To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- verb To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- verb To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
Similar words
lower under chthonic low bottom infernal chthonian underground millstone hell
Often followed by
world regions stowey garments millstone lip millstones parts region limbs
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