below

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adv. subordinate, lower, underneath. —prep. under, beneath. See inferiority, lowness.Ant., above.

II

(Roget's IV) modif. and prep.

1. [Lower in position]

Syn. beneath, underneath, down from; see under 1 .

2. [Lower in rank or importance]

Syn. inferior, subject to, lesser; see subordinate , under 2 .

3. [ In written work, farther along]

Syn. following, later, on a following page, infra, vide infra, v.i. (all Latin), in a statement to be made, hereinafter, subsequently.

Ant. earlier, above*, on a previous page.

4. [ In a ship, on or to a lower deck]

Syn. between-decks, below-decks, in the hold, in steerage, in the engine room, below the waterline.

5. [On earth]

Syn. in this world, here below, under the sun, on the face of the earth, in mundane existence, in this period of earthly probation, in this our life, here.

6. [In hell]

Syn. in the underworld, with the fallen angels, in Pluto's realm, damned, condemned, in Inferno; see also damned 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) adv.

beneath, down, under, low, underneath.