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nadir

Part of speech: Noun

That part of the heavens directly opposite to the zenith; the lowest point.

Usage examples "nadir":

The use of tobacco for smoking, as I have said, had reached its nadir- in the fashionable world, that is to say- but the dawn follows the darkest hour, and the revival of smoking was at hand, thanks to the cigar. - "The Social History of Smoking", G. L. Apperson.
He did not, indeed, perceive the aesthetic value of sin- he did not perceive the esthetic value of anything,- and his analysis of human nature was not profound enough to reach the conception of sin, crime being to him the nadir of downward possibility- but he had a professional, a sort of half Scotland Yard, half master of hounds interest in a criminal. - "Castle Richmond", Anthony Trollope.
Education might have made him a Nadir Shah; it might also have made him a Washington; it could not have made him a merry- andrew, for our newspapers to extol as a model of eloquence. - "Crotchet-Castle", Peacock, Thomas Love.