bottom dweller
Lives on floor
A bottom dweller is a fish or other aquatic creature that lives on or near the seafloor or riverbed—catfish, flounder, crabs.
Figuratively, a bottom dweller is someone at the lowest level of society, a profession, or a ranking: The team has been a bottom dweller in the league for years.
The term often carries contempt, suggesting someone disreputable or unsuccessful.
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- barbelsFish sensory projections
- benthicOf the sea bottom
- ocean floorUnderwater continental surface
- sea bedUnderwater terrain surface
deep sea · outcast · loaches · freshwater · mud flat · scavenger · underdog · flounder · sediment · downtrodden · social ladder · sea cucumber · hydrothermal vent · burrower · crab · silt · lurking · trench
- dwellers
- Corydoras
- pond lifetadpoles, fish, frog, frogs, algae
- standingsrankings, leaderboard, league table, ladder, seeding
- Non-winnersloser, runner-up, beaten, defeated, second place
- seafloorseabed, seafloor, ocean floor, mid-ocean ridge, sea bed
social status (figurative)
bottom dwellerhigh flyer
Ambitious, successful individual
elite · top dog · mover and shaker · big shot · VIP