acme

Speech parts

1. acme - Noun

2. Acme - Proper noun

Meaning

The top or highest point; the culmination.

The crisis or height of a disease.

Mature age; full bloom of life.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

top summit apex height peak pinnacle prime meridian vertex maximum elevation climax culmination zenith superlative
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Antonyms

canyon valley pes foothill foundation smut
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Hypernyms

point level stage degree extreme extremum

Hyponyms

crown roof peak

Phrases with the word

acme of perfection at the acme acme screw acme nut

Anagrams

came mace ECAM ECMA eMac aemc

Examples

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Sun Tzu

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. Sun Tzu

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says. John Marshall

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser. Vladimir Nabokov

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. Ali

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. Edward Thorndike

Close letter words and terms

acmatic ACMC ACMD acme nut acme of perfection acme screw