📖 Definitions of "Pinnacles"
noun
- 1
The highest point.
- 2
A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
- 3
An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
- 4
An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
verb
- 1
To put something on a pinnacle.
- 2
To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pinnacles"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| heightnoun | The distance from the base to the top of something. |
| peaknoun | The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. |
| topnoun | The highest or uppermost part of something. |
| acmenoun | A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period. |
| elevationnoun | The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc. |
| superlativenoun | (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully). |
| summitnoun | The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature. |
| crocketed | (architecture) Having a crocket. |
| statued | Adorned with statues. |
| pinnated | pinnate |
| spiresnoun | A surname. |
| pikes peaknoun | A mountain, a fourteener in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, named after Zebulon Pike. |
| pinnulenoun | (botany) Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet. |
| pillarsnoun | (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture. |
| cliffsnoun | (informal) Cliff notes |
| pyramidsnoun | A set of ancient pyramidal-shaped constructions in Egypt, mostly built as tombs for the pharaohs. |
| pitonsnoun | two mountainous volcanic plugs, volcanic spires, located in Saint Lucia. |
| pinnatifid | (botany, of leaves) Having lobes with incisions that extend less than half-way toward the midrib. |
| summitsnoun | The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature. |
| pinnatanoun | — |
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