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Definition: BELOW PAR |
BELOW PAR1. At a discount. |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | A share with a market price lower than its par value. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish. |
Discount | Adverb: at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the business. |
Imperfection | Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement. |
Inexpedience | Vile, base, villainous; mean; (paltry); injured; deteriorated; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par; (imperfect); illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful; (painful). |
Lowness | Adverb: under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown, at the foot of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb; below par. |
Smallness | Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BELOW PAR |
| English words defined with "BELOW PAR": At a discount. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Their fidelity and sagacity are below par now. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "BELOW PAR": be below par ♦ fall below par ♦ feel below par ♦ i feel below par. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BELOW PAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سقيم (ill, poor, puny, rickety, sick, sickly, unwell, wan), عليل (bland, ill, queer, sick), أقل من السعر الأصلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | под номиналната стойност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | under pari (at a discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | beneden pari (at a discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | au-dessous du pair. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unter Pari (at a discount), unter dem Nennwert (at a discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάτω από το άρτιο (at a discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא בקו "בריאות (indisposed, off color, under the weather, unwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | névérték alatt, parin alul, nívótlan (third rate, to be below par), nívón alul, átlagon aluli (to be below par). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sotto la pari (at a discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 額面割れ (drop below par). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がくめ"われ (drop below par). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elowbay arpay nu-i fi boii acasã (be out of sorts, fall below par, have the pip, not to feel quite up to the mark), mã simt prost (I feel below par). (various references) ниже номинального. (various references) malucho (poorly), debajo de la par (at a discount), de calidad inferior (bad quality, crummy). (various references) inte särskilt bra. (various references) нижче номиналу. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-o-p-r-w" | |
-1 letter: ropable, rowable. | |
-2 letters: barlow, bawler, bewrap, blower, boreal, bowler, parole, plower, prelaw, warble. | |
-3 letters: abler, baler, below, blare, blear, bolar, boral, bowel, bower, brawl, elbow, labor, lobar, loper, lower, opera, paler, pareo, parle, parol, pawer, pearl, polar, poler, power, probe, prole, prowl, rebop, roble, rowel, waler. | |
-4 letters: able, aero, aloe, alow, aper, awol, bale. | |
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