low-level

[ loh-lev-uhl ]

adjective

1. undertaken by or composed of members having a low status:

   a low-level discussion.

2. having low status:

   low-level personnel.

3. undertaken at or from a low altitude:

   low-level bombing.

4. Linguistics. occurring or operating at the phonetic level of linguistic representation or analysis:

   low-level rules governing assimilation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of low-level¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination fell 94 percent—from 4,831 to 300.

From The Daily Beast

Originally it was a low-level insurgency mainly confined to the Sinai Peninsula .

From The Daily Beast

If they do, the jobs are low-level, part-time, temporary, insecure, and require supplementing with freelancing.

From The Daily Beast

While the answer contained additional verbiage, it maintains the same low level of intellectual content.

From The Daily Beast

That team fought their way back to the CIA annex with other Americans and sustained a low-level firefight throughout the evening.

From The Daily Beast

You would degrade yourself to my level; and, God knows, mine is a very low level.

From Project Gutenberg

Man entered the contest at a low level of mental development; he emerged from it at a comparatively high level.

From Project Gutenberg

It fell to a low level, but not so low that Hollister ever failed to shift his cedar bolts from chute mouth to mill.

From Project Gutenberg

This self-excited state of ecstasy is an element of most religions in the same stage of development; and a low level it indicates.

From Project Gutenberg

Do they not bring moral discredit on a great creed, and tend to reduce it to the low level of mere and fulsome cant?

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