lowering (n.)
- abatement
- abridgment
- alleviation
- approaching
- attenuation
- bad
- beetle
- black
- boding
- break
- brewing
- bullying
- cadence
- catenary
- close
- coming
- concavity
- contraction
- cut
- dampening
- dark
- de-escalation
- debasement
- decline
- decrease
- decrement
- deduction
- deepening
- deflation
- degradation
- demotion
- depreciation
- depression
- descent
- devaluation
- digging
- diminution
- dive
- dour
- drilling
- droop
- ducking
- dying
- evil
- excavation
- extenuation
- foreboding
- future
- gathering
- gloom
- gloominess
- grim
- grum
- heavy
- hollowness
- ill
- incumbent
- instant
- jutting
- lapse
- lessening
- letup
- looming
- lower
- melancholy
- miniaturization
- mining
- mitigation
- moody
- overcast
- pending
- plummet
- plunge
- reduction
- relaxation
- sag
- simplicity
- sinister
- sinking
- slash
- slump
- somberness
- submergence
- subsidence
- subtraction
- sulky
- swag
- unfortunate
- waiting
- weakening
lowering (adj.)
- abusive
- apocalyptic
- approaching
- bad
- baleful
- baneful
- beetle
- beetle-browed
- beetling
- black
- blustering
- boding
- bullying
- close
- clouded
- cloudy
- coming
- comminatory
- cut
- dark
- deepening
- dejected
- denunciatory
- descent
- dire
- dive
- dour
- dreary
- dull
- dying
- evil
- fateful
- foreboding
- forthcoming
- frowning
- funereal
- future
- gathering
- gloomful
- glooming
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- grim
- heavy
- ill
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- immediate
- imminent
- impendent
- impending
- inauspicious
- incumbent
- instant
- intimidating
- jutting
- looming
- melancholy
- menacing
- minacious
- minatory
- mining
- moody
- morose
- near
- ominous
- overcast
- pending
- portentous
- probing
- projecting
- sagging
- scowling
- sinister
- somber
- stormy
- sulky
- sullen
- superincumbent
- surly
- threatening
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- untoward
- upcoming
- waiting
- weakening
The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
