Definition of "lowering"
lowering1
lowering2
adjective
comparative more lowering, superlative most lowering
(of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.
Quotations
The morning had been intensely hot, with but little wind; and the lowering gloomy aspect of the clouds appeared to indicate the approach of one of those sudden gales peculiar to tropical climates, and which, although of short duration, are generally productive of mischief.
1827, Anonymus, Two Years in Ava from May 1824 to May 1826, page 17
Quotations
The Countess had liked Elsa from the first moment when she saw her, ragged, unkempt and forlorn, among the lowering, suspicious men-at-arms in the courtyard, and now that she knew the dangers and the privations the girl had braved for the sake of Wilhelm, the affectionate heart of Beatrix found ample room for the motherless Elsa.
2014, Robert Barr, The Strong Arm: And Other Stories, page 64
Quotations
Klimov put on his greatcoat mechanically and left the train, and he felt as though it were not himself walking, but some one else, a stranger, and he felt that he was accompanied by the heat of the train, his thirst, and the ominous, lowering figures which all night long had prevented his sleeping.
1887, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Typhus
noun
plural lowerings