Definitions for acme

acme ac·me

Spelling: [ak-mee]
IPA: /ˈæk mi/

Acme is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in acme (acem).

Definitions for acme

noun

  1. the highest point; summit; peak:

Origin of acme

First recorded in 1610-20, acme is from the Greek word akmḗ point, highest point, extremity

Examples for acme

acme has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.

This generous disposition of yours I now regard as acme of human dower.

He is the acme of political correctness (notwithstanding the odd drone directed at “AfPak”).

I did comedy sketches of her at acme, but she was known as ‘The Other Mrs. Gabor’ then.

The team behind Indochine and acme is also opening Tijuana Picnic in the LES sometime this month.

Why, it was almost as bad as that acme of horrors, a chimney-pot hat!

Sir Donald follows the sense of compassion, which often is the acme of intrinsic craft.

But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.

Traffic was intense, and had reached what might be supposed its acme.

But that's no matter, for the acme of my military ambitions is now attained.

Word Value for acme
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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