lowendとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

low-end (comparative more low-end or lower-end, superlative most low-end or lowest-end)

1. Cheap, inexpensive or low-quality.

   Synonyms: bottom-shelf, low-cost, low-priced; see also Thesaurus:cheap

   Antonyms: high-end, top-shelf; see also Thesaurus:expensive

   Coordinate terms: mid-range, middle-end (nonstandard); middlebrow, midbrow; mid-level, mid-tier; low-level

   Near-synonym: downmarket

   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 81:

     In trade, it is an almost infallible law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping grouund for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.

   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on low-end market.

アナグラム

• Dowlen, Lowden, Weldon