| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | altitude, top part |
| Synonyms: | acme, apex, apogee, brow, ceiling, crest, crown, cusp, elevation, extent, highness, hill, loftiness, mountain, peak, pinnacle, pitch, prominence, rise, solstice, stature, summit, tallness, tip, tiptop, vertex, zenith |
| Antonyms: | bottom, depth, lowness |
| Main Entry: | height |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
aerial, alpine, altitudinarian, altitudinous, altivolant, attolent, beetling, bird's, cloud, elevated, eminent, exalted, gigantic, hanging, heaven, 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 |
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-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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| Main Entry: | acme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pinnacle of achievement or physical object |
| Synonyms: | apogee, capstone, climax, culmination, height, high point, highest point, meridian, optimum, peak, summit, top, ultimate, vertex, zenith |
| Antonyms: | nadir |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | crest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highest point |
| Synonyms: | acme, apex, apogee, climax, crescendo, crown, culmination, fastigium, head, height, noon, peak, pinnacle, ridge, roof, summit, top, vertex |
| Notes: | a wave's foamy top is its crest; spray blown up from wave tops is spindrift |
| Antonyms: | bottom, nadir |
| Main Entry: | crisis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical situation |
| Synonyms: | big trouble, catastrophe, change, climacteric, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, hot potato, hour of decision, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth, necessity, pass, perplexity, pickle, pinch*, plight, point of no return, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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