LOW-LYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low-lying mean? 

• LOW-LYING (adjective)
  The adjective LOW-LYING has 2 senses:

1. having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level

2. lying below the normal level

  Familiarity information: LOW-LYING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW-LYING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level

Context example:

low-lying clouds

Similar:

low (literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lying below the normal level

Synonyms:

low-lying; sea-level

Context example:

a low-lying desert

Similar:

lowland (of relatively low or level country)

 Context examples 

On the left the low-lying land stretched in a dim haze, rising here and there into a darker blur which marked the higher capes and headlands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I held on to the weather rail, close by the shrouds, and gazed out across the desolate foaming waves to the low-lying fog-banks that hid San Francisco and the California coast.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A brown forest stream swirled down the centre of this clearing, with a rude bridge flung across it, and on the other side was a second field sloping up to a long, low-lying wooden house, with thatched roof and open squares for windows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hills were all low-lying.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If she were heading south-west as Johnson had said, the wind, then, I calculated, was blowing nearly from the south. The fog was gone, and in its place the sun sparkled crisply on the surface of the water, I turned to the east, where I knew California must lie, but could see nothing save low-lying fog-banks—the same fog, doubtless, that had brought about the disaster to the Martinez and placed me in my present situation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To Alleyne whose days had been spent in the low-lying coastland, the eager upland air and the wide free country-side gave a sense of life and of the joy of living which made his young blood tingle in his veins.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bluff cape to the north and a long spit to the south marked the mouth of the noble river, with a low-lying island of silted sand in the centre, all shrouded and curtained by the spume of the breakers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)