Peaked

Definition: Peaked

Peaked

Adjective

1. Somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work".

2. Having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the island's peaked hills".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "peaked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Peaked

Sharpness

Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.

Crosswords: Peaked

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza (Die Hard 2; writing credit: Steven E. de Souza)

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The comfortable home with high peaked roof--. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Historians believe that the incidence of malaria in this country peaked around 1875, but they estimate that by 1914, more than 600,000 new cases still were occurring every year. Malaria has been a significant factor in virtually all of the military campaigns involving the United States. (references)

Business

The number of ISPs in the UK has peaked and is beginning to contract. (references)

There is a peaked interest in historical ties between people of the region and between Africa and Europe that promotes heritage tourism. (references)

In the years following 1988, the market rose 2 to 3 percent annually and finally peaked to 1.1 trillion won in 1996 before the financial crisis. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

In addition, there are 1,014 community banks (CBs). Community banks were first established in 1990, rose sharply to 66 in 1991, 879 in 1993 and peaked at 1,368 in 1996. By mid-2001, the number of community banks had fallen to 1,052. The main objectives in setting up the CBs included the mobilization of rural savings, promotion of rural development and the enhancement of micro enterprises, especially, in the rural areas. (references)

Bahrain

Demand for electricity peaked at 1,291 MW in summer 2000 up from 1,200 MW in 1999 (before Hidd came on line) and up from 1,159 MW in 1998. According to the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW), peak demand is expected to reach 1,380 MW during the summer of 2001. Adding the proposed Hidd phase II expansion would bring total production to 2,070 MW in 2004 (subtracting power from the aging Manama plant, which is scheduled for shutdown that year). (references)

Bulgaria

Unemployment peaked at 19 percent in April 2000, reaching 18 percent in December 2000. The increase in unemployment was due to substantial layoffs at the large state-owned industrial enterprises under restructuring and liquidation. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

Privatization revenues peaked in 1997-98, and the pace of privatization since then has slowed, although the government sold the Sao Paulo state bank Banespa for $3 billion in November 2000. The government had planned to privatize several electricity generation companies in 2001, but those plans have been placed on hold with the electricity crisis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "peaked": peaked cap ♦ peaked features ♦ peaked hours ♦ peaked season ♦ peaked times. Additional references.

Beginning with "peaked": peaked-capped.

Ending with "peaked": single-peaked.

Albanian

me strehë, me majë (pointed, sharp), i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, dingy, ghastly, light, livid, pale, pallid, paly, wan), i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i prishur në fytyrë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مدبب (sharpened, tapered). (various references)

Bulgarian 

с козирка, с остри черти (peaky), островръх (acuminate, arrow-headed, peaky, spiry), отслабнал (diminished, lean, peaky, pinched, pinch-faced, spare, thin, withered), заострен (acuminate, peaky, pointed, spiky, subulate, taper, tapering). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�化 (Peaking). (various references)

Czech

špièatý (pointed, sharp, spiked, spiky). (various references)

Finnish

suippokärkinen (pointed). (various references)

French

pointu. (various references)

German

spitz (acute, barbed, cuspid, cutting, haggard, horny, peaky, petty, pinched, pointed, pointedly, pomeranian, Randy, sharp, spiked, spiky, Spitz, unkind), magerte ab. (various references)

Greek 

κορυφώδησ, ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slab-sided, slender, slim, spare, thin), μυτερόσ (cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, piked, pronged, spicate, spiculate, spiky). (various references)

Hungarian

csúcsos (kip, peaky, picked, pointed). (various references)

Italian

puntuto, con visiera, aguzzo (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, keen, lurid, pointed, sharp). (various references)

Korean 

뾰족해지�". (various references)

Manx

speekagh, skeairagh, eairkagh (antlered, attired, crescent, crescent of moon, horned, long-eared), beinntagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

eakedpay.(various references)

Portuguese

pontiagudo (acute, cuspidal, cuspidate, pointed, tapering), pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, linen, livid, lurid, mealy, off-color, off-colour, pale, pallid, pasty, perse, sallow, sickly, tallowy, wan, washed-out, white-headed), terminado em ponta (sharp), macilento, com aspecto doentio. (various references)

Romanian

tras (indrawn, pinched), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), ascuţit (acute, argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, screaming, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty). (various references)

Russian 

заостренный (acuminate, arrow-headed, edgy, pointy, spicate, spiky). (various references)

Scottish

biorach (a heifer, pointed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

iznuren (deadbeat, jaded, peaky, run down, weary, worn-down), šiljat (acute, crested, pointed, spiky), šiljast (jagged, pointed). (various references)

Spanish

puntiagudo (acuminate, pointed, ridged, ridgy, sharp pointed, spiked, spiky), con visera. (various references)

Swedish

spetsig (acute, peaky, pointed, sharp, spiky), mager (gaunt, hungry, ill-conditioned, lank, lean, meagre, parsimonious, raw boned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare, thin). (various references)

Turkish

zayıf düşmüş (decrepit, peaky), tepeli (crested, hooded, humped, humpy, tufted, tufty), süzülmüş (filtered, peaky, strained). (various references)

Ukrainian

гострокінцевий (acuminate, cuspidal, cuspidate, peaky, piked, ridged, ridgy, spiny, spiral, spired), змарнілий (withered). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xanh xao (pallid, pasty-faced, peaky), tiều tuỵ (flea-bitten, mean, meant, peaky), hom hem (decrepit, peaky), có chóp nhọn héo hon ốm yếu (peaky). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "peaked": peakedness, peakednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Peaked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paiked, peaceo, Peacey, peached, peake, peakead, Peaker, peakid, peased, peated, peaved, peekid, pekid, pekkid, pewked, phake, Puhakka, teaked. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: apeek.

-2 letters: akee, aped, deep, deke, eked, keep, peak, peed, peek, peke.

-3 letters: ape, dak, dap, dee, eke, kae, kea, kep, pad, pea, ped, pee.

-4 letters: ad, ae, de, ed, ka, pa, pe.

+1 letter: kneepad.

+2 letters: kidnapee, knapweed, kneepads, packeted, prebaked, repacked, reparked.

+3 letters: kidnapees, kidnappee, knapweeds, peacocked, prepacked, presoaked.

+4 letters: kidnappees, kneecapped, peakedness, prefranked, repackaged.

+5 letters: backpedaled, doublespeak, frankpledge, loudspeaker, paperbacked, placekicked, prepackaged, sleepwalked, spacewalked.