| Main Entry: | peak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reach highest point |
Synonyms: |
be at height, climax, come to a head, crest, culminate, reach the top, reach the zenith, top out |
| Notes: | peak means 'maximize,' peek means 'to peep or snoop,' and pique means 'to excite or irritate' |
Antonyms: |
fall, hit bottom, plunge |
| Main Entry: | peaked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, sick |
Synonyms: |
ailing, bilious, emaciated, ill, in bad shape, peaky, poorly, sickly, under the weather, wan |
Antonyms: |
blushing, colorful, flushed, healthy |
| Main Entry: | acute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a sharp end or point |
Synonyms: |
acicular, aciculate, acuminate, acuminous, cuspate, cuspidate, knifelike, needle-shaped, peaked, piked, pointed, sharpened, spiked |
| Notes: | acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of more than 90 degrees chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments |
Antonyms: |
blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
Synonyms: |
ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted |
Antonyms: |
flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | climax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to top; culminate |
Synonyms: |
accomplish, achieve, break the record, cap, come, come to a head, conclude, content, crown, end, finish, fulfill, hit high spot, orgasm, peak, please, reach a peak, reach the zenith, rise to crescendo, satisfy, succeed, terminate, top, tower |
Antonyms: |
delve, dip, drop, fall off |
| Main Entry: | drawn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tense, fatigued |
Synonyms: |
fraught, haggard, harassed, harrowed, peaked, pinched, sapped, starved, strained, stressed, taut, thin, tired, worn |
Antonyms: |
relaxed, unstressed |
| Main Entry: | emaciated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished; thin |
Synonyms: |
anorexic, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, consumptive, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, pinched, scrawny, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin as rail, underfed, wasted, wizened |
Antonyms: |
fat, heavy, overnourished, overweight, plump |
| Main Entry: | gaunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skinny |
Synonyms: |
angular, anorexic, attenuated, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skeleton, skin and bones, spare, thin, wasted |
Antonyms: |
plump, thick, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
Synonyms: |
a wreck, afflicted, ailing, below par, bummed, diseased, down, down with, feeling awful, feeling rotten, feeling terrible, got the bug, indisposed, infirm, laid low, off one's feet, on sick list, out of sorts, peaked, poorly, queasy, rotten, run-down, running temperature, sick as a dog, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, woozy |
Antonyms: |
good, healthy, sound, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | invalid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickly |
Synonyms: |
ailing, bedridden, below par, debilitated, disabled, down, feeble, frail, ill, infirm, laid low, on the sick list, out of action, peaked, poorly, run-down, sick, weak |
Antonyms: |
healthy, well |