Nadir

Quick meaning: Nadir is a noun meaning (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.

Meaning

(figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.

More Meanings

1. (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
2. (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
3. (transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
4. The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: dead

Trust had reached a nadir.

[…] when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow […]

[…] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]

Word Forms

• nadirs
• nadiring
• nadired

Synonyms for nadir

Depending on context, synonyms include antizenith, trough, bathos, dead, down.

Antonyms for nadir

Common opposites include zenith, height, peak, duplet, super.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include depths, viewing, rare, zenith, antizenith, meridian.

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