| Main Entry: | ne plus ultra |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highest degree |
Synonyms: |
extreme case, extremity, furthest point, highest point, limit, nth degree, perfection, ultimate, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost |
| Main Entry: | apex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top, high point |
Synonyms: |
acme, apogee, climax, crest, crown, culmination, cusp, greatest, height, max, maximum, meridian, most*, ne plus ultra, peak, pinnacle, point, roof, spire, sublimity, summit, tip, tops, up there, vertex, zenith |
Antonyms: |
nadir |
| Main Entry: | climax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peak, culmination |
Synonyms: |
acme, apex, apogee, ascendancy, capsheaf, capstone, climacteric, crest, crowning point, extremity, head, height, high spot, highlight, intensification, limit, maximum, meridian, ne plus ultra, orgasm, payoff, pinnacle, pitch, summit, tiptop, top, turning point, utmost, zenith |
Antonyms: |
anticlimax, cliffhanger |
| Main Entry: | culmination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion; climactic stage |
Synonyms: |
acme, all the way, apex, apogee, blow off, capper, climax, completion, consummation, critical mass, crown, crowning touch, finale, finish, height, limit, maximum, meridian, ne plus ultra, noon, payoff, peak, perfection, pinnacle, punch line, summit, top, zenith |
Antonyms: |
beginning, commencement, opening, start |
| Main Entry: | height |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | climax; importance |
Synonyms: |
acme, crest, crisis, crowning point, culmination, dignity, eminence, end, exaltation, extremity, grandeur, heyday, high point, limit, loftiness, maximum, ne plus ultra, prominence, sublimity, top, ultimate, utmost degree, uttermost |
Antonyms: |
bottom, nadir, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | peak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maximum, zenith |
Synonyms: |
acme, apex, apogee, capstone, climax, crown, culmination, greatest, height, high point, meridian, ne plus ultra, pinnacle, summit, tip, top |
| Notes: | peak means 'maximize,' peek means 'to peep or snoop,' and pique means 'to excite or irritate' |
Antonyms: |
base, nadir |
| Main Entry: | height |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
heaven, aerial, alpine, altitudinarian, altitudinous, altivolant, attolent, beetling, bird's, cloud, elevated, eminent, exalted, gigantic, hanging, highest, hilly, incumbent, lanky, lofty, moorland, mountainous, overhanging, overlying, patagonian, prominent, rampant, soaring, stilted, sub, superincumbent, superior, supernatant, tall, tall as a Maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, terraced, towering, upland, upper
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| Concept: | Height. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness; sublimity., tallness; stature, procerity; prominence., colussus (size); giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard., mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights (summit), [more]; knob, loma, pena [U.S.], picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height, dizzying height., tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola., pole, pikstaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast., ceiling (covering)., high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide., altimetry (angel); batophobia.
-verbs
be high; tower, soar, command; hover; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop (be superior); stand on tiptoe., become high; grow higher, grow taller; upgrow; rise (ascend)., render high; heighten (elevate).
-adjectives
high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic (big); Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated; upper; highest (topmost); high reaching, insessorial, perching., upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial., overhanging ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed; prominent., tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple; lanky (thin).
-adverbs
on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high., over, upwards; from top to bottom (completely).
-phrases
e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto ["It is better to fall from the window than from the roof" (Italian)].
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Antonyms: |
lowness |
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