noun

• The point at which something is at its best or most highly developed.

  ‘physics is the acme of scientific knowledge’

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  • ‘And until we do the same, we shall forever be trapped within the prison-house of our preferences, by our Darwinian sense that youth, vigour and health represent the prime of life and the acme of desirability.’
  • ‘Within a few years, he established a reputation as a first class tailor, and at 17 he decided to leave for the United Kingdom in an audacious attempt to make a reputation on Saville Row, the international acme of sartorial elegance.’
  • ‘It is the acme of romanticism; I devoted most of a year's worth of high school study halls to it, along with all of the volumes of Dumas's Three Musketeers series, which I inherited from my grandmother.’
  • ‘With 4500 seats, it represented the acme of movie-going, with double seats for courting couples, uniformed doormen and waitresses in two restaurants dressed as Dresden shepherdesses.’
  • ‘The spelling bee represents the acme of their parents' study-hard work ethic.’
  • ‘Suddenly the already tragically passé dress that nobody bought because it was, is and ever shall be completely hideous, becomes the acme of desirability because it's got money off.’
  • ‘In his development of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in a quarter-century of Warner Bros. cartoons, Chuck reached and raised the acme of comic animation.’
  • ‘McNab says the game has come to represent the acme of upmarket aspiration for the elite decision-makers of business, sports, finance, politics and showbiz.’
  • ‘The first efforts of the papacy to increase its power and restore its prestige coincided with the acme of the Patriarch in Constantinople around the eleventh century.’
  • ‘The MBA is the acme of middle class parental ambition and student dreams, but as a post-graduate qualification it is a peculiar case.’
  • ‘Are neatly-kept lawns the acme of suburban aspiration?’
  • ‘Britain, he declared, and British laws and achievements, were the acme of human civilization.’
  • ‘She is the acme of generosity, wanting to know if I've a sweetheart so she can give her some jewellery, and which Broadway show I'd like to see.’
  • ‘To achieve these effects is undoubtedly the acme of military skill.’
  • ‘He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.’
  • ‘Whether he has plummeted, reached the acme or is in a spiritual limbo is for him to decide.’
  • ‘His poetry is no more the acme of dialectical evolution than it is the culmination of the ‘decline’ perceived by Bloom.’
  • ‘He last worked with them on Born in the USA, an extraordinarily bombastic album that still represents the acme of 1980s stadium rock.’
  • ‘The teardrop shape shared by the stacks and the pitcher, the acme of streamlining in nature, is dramatized by the slender handle that extends from the mouth to the base in a single uninterrupted curve.’
  • ‘Civil war, revolution, terrorism, and international war are widely condemned by many societies and glorified by others as the acme of patriotic fervor.’

  Synonyms

  summit, top, crest, pinnacle, mountaintop, spire, heights, brow, apex, crown, tip, cap, vertex, acme, zenith, apogee

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