nether
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /nɛð.ə/
  • (America) IPA: /nɛð.ɚ/
Adjective

nether (comparative nethermore, superlative nethermost)

  1. Lower; under.
    The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
  2. 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,
Synonyms Translations Translations Adverb

nether

  1. Down; downward.
  2. Low; low down.
Verb

nether (nethers, present participle nethering; past and past participle nethered)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  2. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  3. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  4. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  5. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Noun

nether (plural nethers)

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  2. (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.



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