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US
/ˈneɪdɝ/
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[ UK /nˈædiə/ ]
[ UK /nˈædiə/ ]
NOUN
- the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected
- an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
How To Use nadir In A Sentence
- A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production.
- That all of these levels were explicable within the work itself says volumes about the vitality of conceptualism in the 70s and 80s - it had not yet a reached a nadir of mannerist gestures.
- It has been widely denounced as a dreadful, expensive mistake, the very nadir of reality television… all of which is true, but what's your point?
- His nadir came in the shape of a double-bogey at the par - 5 seventh where he pranged one into the rough, another behind the green and, all the while, swished his club about in ill-disguised anger.
- Nadir should be put in the dock. Times, Sunday Times
- They were the nadir of British imperialism and we must accept Chinese anger as justifiable. Times, Sunday Times
- So unless Cisco is about to invest heavily in optical research and find a way to catch up to the Canons and Panasonics of the world, this seems like a purchase at the nadir of a product cycle rather than a value added long term proposition. At $590M, Did Cisco Pay Too Much for Flip?
- This biographical detail is often imagined to be his nadir, but the truth is that he had passed that point.
- This failure was the nadir of her career.
- Our American democracy has reached a nadir and we are experiencing a constitutional crisis and threat to the rule of law this democracywas founded ondue to the gross incompetence, fraudand 'tyranny by the decider 'GWBush and his neo-con/big oil cabal ... we are on the precipice of watching our very democracy and republic as we know it crumble .. Obama's Speech Accomplishes More Than It Appears