HEIGHTS Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

heights

noun

plural of height

as in pinnacles

the highest part or point many regard the painting of the Sistine Chapel as the height of Michelangelo's career

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as in depths

the most extreme or advanced point the student's defiant use of a cell phone during class was regarded by the professor as the height of insolence

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as in hills

an area of high ground Gulliver, standing on a height near the shore, saw an island suspended above the sea

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as in midsts

the most intense or characteristic phase of something at the very height of the storm, someone knocked on the door

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Recent Examples of heights Michael Stambaugh looks through a clinometer, an eyepiece that uses triangulation to measure tree heights, vertical angles, and slope steepness. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Fit for a king Mai’s arrival in England coincided with a fad for Pacific cultures that had risen to new heights in 1773, when a blockbuster compilation of accounts of Pacific expeditions, which included Cook’s first voyage, was published. — Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026 To achieve such heights, Gicon’s design combines a conventional wind turbine with a steel lattice support structure and a telescoping inner tower. — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2026 Silk walls, marble floors, rich mahogany, a nightclub, and a cinema pushed onboard luxury to new heights. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 Water from the storm surge and high tide could reach heights of 5 to 7 feet in parts of Alabama and Mississippi, the hurricane center said. — R.j. Rico, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 Water from the storm surge and high tide could reach heights of 5 to 7 feet in parts of Alabama and Mississippi, forecasters said. — R.j. Rico, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Da Corte and his studio assistants personally painted this 32-foot-tall remake, which doubles as both a loving homage and a means of raising a great work to new heights. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Philbrick, a seasoned and popular chronicler of the American past, is equally concerned with those who got trampled by the rush as with those who rode it to astonishing heights of wealth and influence. — Richard Kreitner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Set the scene The resort sprawls across 10,000 square meters of AlUla’s Ashar Valley, a broad swath of pale desert surrounded by otherworldly rock pinnacles.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026

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Built in 1926, near the end of what many consider the heyday of the American carousel, the Griffith Park merry-go-round began its life in San Diego and was relocated to Los Angeles in the depths of the Great Depression in 1937.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
One of Vicuña’s new paintings is Polvo del Sahara/ Saharan Desert Dust (2026), an underwater scene showing the light reflecting into the depths of the ocean, where a stone staircase leads to somewhere beyond the horizon.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of depths

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The entertaining spaces, including the adjoining living and dining rooms, are framed by large windows that look out on the rolling hills.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
The area is sparsely populated with private estates set atop hills or within canyons, making firefighting access difficult.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

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Both are curled in chairs in an otherwise empty room in an upscale Hyde Park Corner hotel, modestly dressed in jeans, sneakers and casual tops.

— Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Men’s bag searches grew 166 percent and silk scarf searches climbed 369 percent, which Fashionphile tied to shoppers styling scarves as tops and handbags.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of tops

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Whether lawmakers accept those limits will help determine how much authority the federal government gains over advanced AI systems.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
France, unlike the United States, places strict limits on campaign spending, but money still shapes the broader political ecosystem.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of limits

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Bogs tend to keep their secrets low to the ground, where colors shift by inches and boundaries blur in gradients of tiny mounds of moss and sedges emerging from pools.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
In 1900, an archaeologist documented 51 Native American mounds at what’s now Casper Bluff Land and Water Reserve, 5 miles outside Galena.

— Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of mounds

Noun

The Kritzers are both middles, but the Redhawks didn’t have a true right-side hitter going into the season.

— Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Juxtapositions of seemingly unlike topics (plants and gender, feral dogs and nuclear weapons) give way to Venn diagrams, with Johnson dwelling in their overlapping middles.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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