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lower-grade

lower-grade is the comparative form of low-grade.

Meaning of low-grade

Adjective

low-grade (comparative lower-grade, superlative lowest-grade)

  1. Of inferior quality.
    • Were the possibilities of improving the efficiency of British Railways' steam locomotives by making the best use of the reasonably satisfactory low-grade lump coal available today, and thereby saving more high-grade locomotive coal, borne in mind when it was decided to go ahead rapidly with...1961 September, “Talking of Trains: Greater scope for steam”, in Modern Railways, page 517
    Antonyms:
    high-grade
  2. Minor.
    • These studies have identified a novel role for MLKL in aging, revealing a delay in the age-related reduction in circulating lymphocytes and a protection from chronic, low-grade, sterile inflammation in female Mlkl^(–/–) aged mice.2023 February 8, Emma C. Tovey Crutchfield; Sarah E. Garnish; Jessica Day; Holly Anderton; Shene Chiou; Anne Hempel; Cathrine Hall; Komal M. Patel; Pradnya Gangatirkar; Katherine R. Martin; Connie S....
    Antonyms:
    high-grade
  3. Not steep; nearly level (having a low grade).

Forms of lower-grade

alternative formlower grade

Questions about lower-grade

What is lower-grade the comparative form of?
Lower-grade is the comparative form of low-grade.

Words near lower-grade in the dictionary

  1. lower-down
  2. lower-emission
  3. lower-end
  4. lower-fat
  5. lower-functioning
  6. lower-grade
  7. lower-growing
  8. lower-heeled
  9. lower-income
  10. lower-IQ
  11. lower-level

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