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/nˈeɪdər/ Listen

Nadir

noun

An extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything. Synonym: low-water mark.

The point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected.

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"Nadir" Quotes from Famous Books

... the ball or the billiard-room, the card or the hazard-table, the turf or the chase; for in all of these does Cheltenham abound. From the cercle de la basse to the cercle de la haute, from the nadir to the zenith, 'I know ye, and have at ye all'—ye busy, buzzing, merry, amorous groups of laughter-loving, ogling, ambling, gambling ...

— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... years hence, and then going to be plucked for a muff, for I know more navigation than you do. Look here, Guy Fawkes: when the sun is in right declination forty-four degrees south, how would you find the square root of the nadir?" ...

— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn

Words linked to "Nadir" : adversity, low-water mark, vault of heaven, celestial point, heavens, welkin, sphere, firmament, empyrean, celestial sphere, hard knocks, hardship, zenith