Compliment
Compliment verb - To express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune.
Lower is an antonym for compliment.
Lower
Lower verb - To reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes.
Usage example: how could you lower yourself by passing off someone else's work as your own?
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When Natalya proclaimed Laycool's combined IQ was lower than their non existent waist sizes, they took it as a compliment.
Source: Comically Missing the Point -
I'll Take That as a Compliment: Quill-Weave, being a novelist that specializes in gritty lower-class struggles, thanks Katia for "introducing her to a whole new level of lower class." Insane Troll Logic: Landorumil.
Source: Webcomic / Prequel - He gave an example of a man who stopped at a red light next to him and gestured at him to lower his window; when Miller complied, expecting a friendly compliment, the man said, Youve never made me laugh!
Source: Butt Monkey / Meta
Cite this Source
Lower and Compliment. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/compliment/lower
Compliment & Lower. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/compliment/lower>.
Lower or Compliment. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/compliment/lower.
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