nadir
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Is nadir a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.Examples: "Near-synonym: dead"; "[…] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]"; "In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets."Synonyms: lowest ebb, slough of despond, trough, bathosAntonyms: height, peakfiguratively
2. (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.Examples: "The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth."Synonyms: down
3. (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.Antonyms: duplet, superarchaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary