nether
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
nether (comparative nethermore, superlative nethermost)
- Lower; under.
- The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
- Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
- the nether regions
- 1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, page187:
- When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
- (lower) bottom, lower
- (beneath the Earth's surface) subsurface, subterranean
- French: inférieur
- German: nieder
- Italian: inferiore
- Portuguese: inferior
- Russian: ни́жний
- Spanish: inferior, de abajo
- French: souterrain
- German: unterirdisch
- Italian: sotterraneo
- Portuguese: subterrâneo
- Russian: подзе́мный
- Spanish: subterráneo
nether
Verbnether (nethers, present participle nethering; past and past participle nethered)
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
nether (plural nethers)
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
- (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
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