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What is the best antonym for acme?
An acme is the point of highest elevation in a geographic region, but what is the corresponding word for the lowest point? In other fields we have nice antonym pairs such as zenith and nadir (astronomy) or maximum and minimum (mathematics), but geography seems to have no precise antonym for acme. If Mount McKinley is the acme of North America, what is Death Valley (that means the geographic point of lowest elevation or greatest depression)?
9 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
nadir, it means the lowest point.
- Ashish BLv 41 decade ago
Main Entry: acme
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pinnacle
Synonyms: apogee, capstone, climax, culmination, height, high point, meridian, optimum, peak, summit, top, ultimate, vertex, zenith
Antonyms: bottom, lowest, nadir, pit, valley
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
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- Anonymous5 years ago
Opposite.
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- 1 decade ago
Acme (in English) is not a geographic word. Here, we would say 'highest point' and 'lowest point' to describe the top of Mt McKinley and the bottom of Death Valley. The top of the mountain would be the summit or peak, where as with the bottom of a feature like a valley, you might just say 'bottom'.
