nadir

noun

ˈnā-ˌdir How to pronounce nadir (audio)
Definition of nadirnext
1
as in depth
the lowest point or level the discussion really reached its nadir when people resorted to name-calling

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2
as in bottom
the lowest part, place, or point got into the stock market when it was at its nadir and then watched prices soar

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Recent Examples of nadir The move would mean the loss of at least 20,000 jobs in the nadir of the Great Depression. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026 The Chiefs already were on their way toward being eliminated from postseason contention, but the injury to their biggest star sent them to a nadir few could have fathomed. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 How can the Canucks go about improving and developing players this coming season, while still maintaining their perch at the nadir of the NHL standings? — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 The current count of active productions on the Georgia Film Office website is 23, up from 13 at the nadir of July. — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nadir
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nadir
  1. depth
  2. bottom
  3. zero
  4. foot
  5. abyss
  6. base
Noun
  • For one game, against the Chargers on Sunday at Arrowhead, the Chiefs dug into their depth chart and got significant contributions from the next men up in a 22-6 victory.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The earthquake's epicenter was about 1 mile south-southwest of San Ramon and occurred at a depth of 4 miles.
    — CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of depth
Noun
  • These entries make a good pair, and mirror each other at the top and bottom of the grid.
    — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • And the enormous investment in AI is a positive development keeping the bottom from falling out—though only in certain economies.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of bottom
Noun
  • Engineers could represent the two configurations as binary digits, or zeros and ones.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
  • This Zuckerberg is no longer made of flesh and blood but ones and zeros.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of zero
Noun
  • For developers managing a mix of AC and DC loads, Inam says the device collapses a number of machines—including a rectifier, an inverter, backup power and energy management—into a single unit four feet square and 12 feet high.
    — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Aetrex’s Wear Tester software uses AI to compare 3D scans of potential candidates against millions of foot profiles in its global database.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of foot
Noun
  • The film’s musical score, by Damon Albarn of Blur, has a haunting Bowie-like party-on-the-abyss shimmer.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Her writing transports us to Mount Sinai, Transylvania, Africa, the Amazon rainforest, Antarctica, Yellowstone, and the deep ocean abyss.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of abyss
Noun
  • Last weekend in Highland, Michigan, Rogers dismissed El-Sayed's attempts to whittle away at his GOP base of support.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The entry-level system for this 16-inch AI workstation is outfitted with Nvidia’s base-model 18-core RTX Spark N1X chip, which uses the 18-core Grace CPU processor, and its Blackwell GPU with 5,120 CUDA cores.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
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