Definitions for nadir

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nadir na·dir

Spelling: [ney-der, ney-deer]

IPA: /ˈneɪ dər, ˈneɪ dɪər/

Nadir is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in nadir (adinr).

Definitions for nadir

noun

1. Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
2. Astrology. the point of a horoscope opposite the midheaven: the cusp of the fourth house.
3. the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.

Origin of nadir

1350-1400; Middle English ≪ Arabic naẓīr over against, opposite to (the zenith)

Examples for nadir

Worse even than what I consider his nadir thus far, the 2011 debt-ceiling fiasco.

The stock market has gone nuts, more than doubling since its March 2009 nadir.

They were written at the time when the Imperial spirit was at its nadir.

The nadir is the lowest point in the heavens and the zenith is the highest.

The debt debacle of 2011 was far and away the nadir of his first term.

It is also on record that nadir Shah took guns as far as Saighan.

At its nadir, on September 4, 2012, Facebook closed below $18.

However, the nadir of his married life was when Rather just barely remembered to call his wife on her birthday.

The sun does not spring at once from the nadir to the zenith.

Such were the counsels of the sage; and nadir departed to begin life.