adjective
- dark and threatening, as if a storm is approaching
Usage: chiefly literary or regional
Examples
- The lowery sky warned of rain to come.
- Dark, lowery clouds gathered on the horizon.
- The afternoon grew lowery and oppressive.
- Under the lowery heavens, the landscape looked forbidding.
- The lowery weather matched his somber mood.
- Sailors watched the lowery skies with concern.