Pinnacle

Quick meaning: Pinnacle is a noun meaning The highest point.

Meaning

The highest point.

More Meanings

1. (geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
2. (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
3. (transitive) To place on a pinnacle.
4. (transitive) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
5. (architecture) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.

Example Sentences

Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.

The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross

The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).

Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.

Word Forms

• pinnacles
• pinnacling
• pinnacled

Synonyms for pinnacle

Depending on context, synonyms include acme, peak, summit, zenith, apex, apogee.

Antonyms for pinnacle

Common opposites include nadir.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include height, peak, top, acme, elevation, superlative.

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