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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

... and imaginary, the narrative of her accidental shipwreck, and his opinion that her death was a public blessing. The author of this shameful document was Seneca, and in composing it he reached the nadir of his moral degradation. Even the lax morality of a most degenerate age condemned him for calmly sitting down to decorate with the graces of rhetoric and antithesis an atrocity too deep for the powers of indignation. A Seneca could stoop to write what a Thrasea Paetus ...

— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar

... really unwinding now. "Nor is even that the nadir of this socio-economic hodge-podge we've allowed to develop, this economy of production for sale, rather than production for use." He stabbed with his finger. "I think one of the best examples of what was ...

— Subversive • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... they will. Well, I will, I will; gad, you shall command me from the Zenith to the Nadir. But the deuce take me if I say a good thing till you come. But prithee, dear rogue, make haste, prithee make haste, I shall burst else. And yonder your uncle, my Lord Touchwood, swears he'll disinherit you, ...

— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve

... at a convenient distance from Mr. Pope, we may safely wish his days had been prolonged, not necessarily to those of his mother, but to the Psalmist's span, so that he might have witnessed the dawn of a brighter day. 1744 was the nadir of the eighteenth century. With Macbeth the dying Pope ...

— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell

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