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Definitions: Nadir |
NadirNoun1. An extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything. 2. The point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Nadir" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "uncommon", "rare". |
Date "nadir" was first used: some time in the late 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | That point on the celestial sphere vertically below the observer, or 180 degrees from the zenith. (references) |
Geography | The point in the heavens diametrically opposed to the zenith, the point directly under the observer DU BUREAU HYDROGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO, 1951. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | Point on the ground vertically beneath the center of a remote sensing platform. (references) |
Health | The lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair. (references) |
Literature | Nadir An Arabic word, signifying that point in the heavens which is directly opposite to the zenith. From zenith down to nadir. From the highest point of elevation to the lowest depth. Nadir. A representation of the planetary system. "We then lost (1091) a most beautiful table, fabricated of different metals ... Saturn was of copper, Jupiter of gold, Mars of iron, the Sun of latten, Mercury of amber, Venus of tin, and the Moon of silver ... It was the most celebrated nadir in all England."- Ingulphus. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Math | Direction toward the center of the Earth. Opposite of zenith. (references) |
Mining | A. The point on the celestial sphere that is directly beneath the observer and directly opposite the zenith b. The point on the ground vertically beneath the perspective center of anaerial-camera lens. (references) |
Science | Point on Earth directly beneath a satellite, the opposite of zenith. Compare with subsatellite point. (references) |
Solar | Straight down (toward the center of the Earth). (references) |
Space | The direction from a spacecraft directly down toward the center of a planet. Opposite the zenith. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nadir."
Synonym: NadirSynonym: low-water mark (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: zenith (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Base | Bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root; centerboard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nadir |
| English words defined with "nadir": Azimuth circle ♦ Cardinal points ♦ Nadir of the sun ♦ zenith. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nadir": ground nadir ♦ HRPT ♦ Koh-i-Nur ♦ lower branch ♦ nadir point, Nadir Shah ♦ photo nadir, photo nadir point, photograph nadir ♦ Zenith, Nadir. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nadir" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (nadir), Czech (nadir), Danish (nadir), Dutch (nadir), French (nadir), German (nadir), Indonesian (nadir), Italian (nadir), Portuguese (nadir), Romanian (nadir), Serbo-Croatian (nadir, nadir point), Spanish (nadir), Swedish (nadir), Turkish (exceptional, few and far between, infrequent, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, unwonted). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973) Tero Nadir Parey (1969) Nadir (1996) Padma Nadir Majhi (1993) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Substantial weight loss generally occurs, with the weight nadir occurring in 18 to 24 months. (references) | |
Economic History | Libya | As a result, Soviet-Libyan relations reached a nadir in mid-1987. (references) |
Mozambique | Relations hit a nadir in March 1981, when the Government of Mozambique expelled four members of the U.S. Embassy staff. (references) | |
Afghanistan | A Pashtun, Durrani was elected king by a tribal council after the assassination of the Persian ruler Nadir Shah at Khabushan in the same year. (references) | |
Political Economy | Yemen | Nature of Political Relationship with the United States: Since their nadir during the Gulf War, relations between the United States and Yemen have been steadily improving. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nadir" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.04% of the time. "Nadir" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 72.04% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.96% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Nadir" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "uncommon", "rare". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Nadir." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Nader | Male | Arabic | Nadir |
| Nadir | Male | Arabic | N/A |
| Nadira | Female | Arabic | Nadir |
| Nadra | Female | Arabic | Nadir |
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| Country | Name |
| Brazil | Nadir Figueredo Ind e Com S.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "nadir": camera nadir ♦ ground nadir ♦ nadir of despair ♦ nadir of the sun ♦ nadir point ♦ photo nadir ♦ photo nadir point ♦ photograph nadir. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nadir | 90 |
nadir shoes | 5 |
nadir ralph | 5 |
nadir shah | 3 |
moishe nadir | 3 |
figueiredo nadir | 3 |
nadir yehya | 3 |
nadir zenith | 2 |
nadir post | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nadir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nadir, pikë më i ulët. (various references) | |
Arabic | في حالة أسى شديد, الحضيض (rock bottom), الدرك الأسفل (cellar). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | краен упадък, най-ниска точка, надир. (various references) | |
Chinese | 最低点. (various references) | |
Czech | nejnižší bod, nadir. (various references) | |
Danish | nadir (ground nadir, ground plumb point). (various references) | |
Dutch | nadir, voetpunt (ground nadir, ground plumb point). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nadiro. (various references) | |
Finnish | nadiiri (ground nadir, ground plumb point). (various references) | |
French | nadir (ground nadir). (various references) | |
German | Nadir, Fusspunkt, fußpunkt. (various references) | |
Greek | ναδίρ (ground nadir, ground plumb point). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קו"ת "שפל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mélypont, nadír. (various references) | |
Indonesian | nadir, titik terendah. (various references) | |
Italian | nadir (ground nadir, ground plumb point). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 極 (climax, culmination, extreme, extremity, height, pole, quite, very, zenith), 天底 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょく (affair, big frame, channel, climax, culmination, department, extreme, extremity, height, piece of music, pole, situation, tune, zenith), て"てい (a line, bound together, Creator, God, Heavenly King, Lord). (various references) | |
Korean | 천 . (various references) | |
Manx | feer-injillid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adirnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nadir (ground nadir, ground plumb point). (various references) | |
Romanian | nivelul cel mai jos, nadir, punctul cel mai jos, limitã inferioarã (low-water mark, minimum limit). (various references) | |
Russian | надир. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nadir (nadir point). (various references) | |
Spanish | nadir (ground nadir, ground plumb point). (various references) | |
Swedish | bottenläge (low, lowest point). (various references) | |
Thai | จุ"ตกต่ำที่สุ". (various references) | |
Turkish | en aşağı nokta, ayakucu. (various references) | |
Ukranian | найнижчий рівень, надир, занепад (anticlimax, blight, chute, decadence, decadency, decay, declension, declination, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, depression, down grade, sunset, waste, wasting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | "ddất đen". (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | nazir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nadir": nadiral, nadirs. (additional references) | |
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"Nadir" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adir, Adyr, andi, andit, andor, andr, anir, anvir, fadir, Gadir, hnekdir, madir, nabir, naci, nadab, nadai, nadar, Naddair, nadder, nader, nadi, nadia, nadie, nadii, Nadira, Nadiri, nadis, Nadmi, nador, Nadur, nady, nagir, naide, naij, Na'im, nair, naire, nairy, naiu, naj, naji, Namdar, Namdi, Namir, naoi, napir, naqi, Naqib, Nasdim, nasir, Nasiria, natir, natirn, nator, Nauder, Naudi, Nayib, nazir, Naziur, nder, ndia, Ndioro, nedar, neder, nedi, nedir, netir, Neudorf, Nhadau, nider, Nidhi, nidr, Nihira, nivir, Nnamdi, Nodar, noder, Nyandwi, padir, Qadri, Sadir, wadir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nadir" (pronounced nā"der) |
| 3 | -ā" d er | crusader, evader, fader, grader, invader, lader, raider, seder, shader, Spader, trader, wader. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dinar, drain, ranid. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: airn, arid, darn, nard, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind. | |
-2 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ani, din, rad, ran, ria, rid, rin. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, an, ar, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: aldrin, daring, denari, dinars, drains, durian, gradin, inroad, inward, nadirs, ordain, qindar, radian, rained, rancid, ranids, riband. | |
+2 letters: adoring, aldrins, andiron, android, aneroid, antired, araneid, barding, birdman, brained, brigand, cairned, carding, dandier, darings, darking, darling, darning, darting, denarii, deraign, detrain, diatron, diurnal, drained, drainer, draping, drawing, draying, durians, farding, gradine, grading, gradins, grained, handier, inarmed, inboard, indraft, indrawn, innards, inroads, invader, inwards, iracund, laniard, larding, mandril, nadiral, nardine, niggard, ordains, ordinal, padroni, pardine, poniard, qindars, radding, radians, radiant, raiding, randier, randies, ravined, reading, ribands, ribband, rimland, sadiron, sandier, sardine, trading, trained, unaired, unbraid, unitard, uranide, warding, yarding. | |
+3 letters: abrading, acaridan, acridine, adhering, adjuring, admiring, adorning, airbound, andirons, androids, aneroids, antherid, antidora, antidrug, arachnid, araneids, arcadian, arcading, aridness, arointed, arsenide, awarding, banditry, bearding, bilander, blinkard, boarding, braconid, bradding, braiding, brandied, brandies, branding, brandish, breading, brigands, cancroid, candider, carangid, cardigan, cardinal, cardings, cordwain, cradling, crannied, daintier, dairying, dairyman, dairymen, dandriff, daringly, darkling, darlings, darnings, dartling, deairing, debonair, denarius, deraigns, derating, detainer, detrains, diatrons, dicentra, dinosaur, dipteran, distrain, diurnals, doornail, drabbing, draconic, drafting, dragging, dragline, drainage, drainers, draining, dramming, dratting, drawings, drawling, dreading, dreaming, duration, dwarfing, endbrain, fricando, gardenia, gradient, gradines, grandkid, grandsir, guardian, guarding, hadronic, hairband, handgrip, handrail, handwrit, hangbird, hardline, harridan, hoarding, inarched, inboards, indrafts, indurate, infrared, inlander, insnared, intraday, intrados, invaders, inwardly, ironclad, islander, kidnaper, laniards, mandarin, mandrill, mandrils, margined, marinade, meridian, midbrain, midrange, misandry, misbrand, misdrawn, mridanga, muraenid, nearside, niggards, nitrated, nondairy, ordained, ordainer, ordinals, ordinand, ordinary, ordinate, organdie, panfried, parading, paranoid, poniards, prandial, pyranoid, qindarka, raddling, radiance, radiancy, radiants, radicand, radioing, radioman, radiomen, rainband, rainbird, raindrop, rancidly, randiest, rationed, readding, readings, readying, redating, regained, reinvade, remained, renailed, rendzina, reordain, retained, rhodamin, ribbands, riddance, rigadoon, rigaudon, rimlands, ruinated, sadirons, sardines, sardonic, serranid, spandril, sprained, stinkard, strained, swarding, tamarind, tandoori, tornadic, treading, trinodal, unafraid, unbraids, undaring, unhaired, unitards, unpaired, unraised, unrepaid, unvaried, uranides, uredinia, urinated, vineyard, viridian, windward, zamindar, zemindar. | |
+4 letters: abridging, acaridans, according, accordion, acridines, acridness, adoration, adoringly, adsorbing, adverting, affording, aggrading, andradite, androecia, anhydride, anhydrite, antherids, antidraft, antifraud, antiradar, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, archfiend, ardencies, arraigned, arsenides, arytenoid, astringed, attainder, badgering, bandolier, bargained, bedraping, bilanders, birdbrain, blinkards, boardings, braconids, braidings, brandying, breadline, brigading, brocading, calendric, cancroids, carangids, carcinoid, cardigans, cardinals, carinated, carnified, chagrined, chancroid, circadian, clarioned, cnidarian, cordwains, coriander, corrading, crusading, curtained, dackering, daggering, daikering, dairyings, dandering, dandriffs, dangering, darkening, darlingly, deaneries, debarking, debarring, declaring, defraying, degrading, demarking, denigrate, departing, depraving, deraigned, derailing, deranging, deratting, detainers, detrained, diachrony, diapering, dicentras, dichondra, dignitary, dinosaurs, dipterans, disarming, disrating, distrains, distraint, diurnally, doctrinal, dogearing, dominator, doornails, drabbling, draconian, draftings, draggling, draglines, dragonish, drainages, drainpipe, drawknife, drinkable, duralumin, durations, dynamiter, endbrains, endearing, engrailed, engrained, entrained, fairyland, firebrand, firsthand, gabardine, gaberdine, gandering, gardenias, gardening, garnished, gesneriad, girandole, gradating, gradation, gradients, grandiose, grandioso, grandkids, grandsire, grandsirs, granitoid, gratineed, grenadier, grenadine, guardians, hagridden, hagriding, hairbands, handgrips, handiwork, handprint, handrails, handwrite, hangbirds, hardening, hardiment, hardiness, harridans, hazarding, headliner, heralding, herniated, hindbrain, hindrance, hoardings, holandric, hydrating, hydration, hydrazine, increased, indagator, indicator, indurated, indurates, inearthed, infarcted, infracted, infrareds, ingrafted, ingrained, inlanders, instarred, integrand, interlaid, interlard, intreated, inundator, inwrapped, ironclads, irredenta, irridenta, islanders, jaborandi, kidnapers, kidnapper, laddering, laundries, madrilene, mandarins, mandrills, manicured, marauding, marinaded, marinades, marinated, meridians, midbrains, midranges, misbrands, mridangam, mridangas, muraenids, nearsides, nephridia, niggarded, niggardly, notarized, nursemaid, ordainers, ordaining, ordinance, ordinands, ordinates, organdies, organised, organized, outdaring, pandering, paranoids, pardoning, parodying, pertained, pervading, philander, pinafored, poniarded, predating, predation, prefading, preordain, printhead, qindarkas, rabidness, radiances, radiantly, radiating, radiation, radicands, rainbands, rainbirds, raindrops, rancidity, randomize, rapidness, rawhiding, readiness, realigned, redacting, redaction, redialing, redrawing, refrained, regarding, regrading, reinvaded, reinvades, reloading, remainder, remanding, rendzinas, reordains, repainted, reprimand, rereading, resinated, respading, retarding, retrained, rewarding, rhodamine, rhodamins, riddances, rigadoons, rigaudons, romanised, romanized, ruminated, sandpiper, sangfroid, saturniid, serranids, sforzandi, signboard, snakebird, spandrils, spikenard, spreading, springald, stinkards, stranding, tailender, tamarinds, tandooris, tardiness, tarnished, thirdhand, threadfin, threading, tradition, traducing, tragedian, trainband, trainload, transited, treadling, trepidant, unadmired, unbraided, underlaid, underlain, underpaid, undrained, undraping, undrawing, unhandier, unmarried, unreadier, unridable, unrivaled, untrained, unwearied, updarting, upgrading, urbanised, urbanized, uredinial, varnished, vinegared, vineyards, viridians, wandering, windbreak, windwards, wiredrawn, withdrawn, wristband, zamindari, zamindars, zemindars, zemindary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 64 69 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- -.. .. .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01100100 01101001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a d i r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0064 0069 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4867707584 |
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