bottom

bottom is a 6-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 30 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
2. noun. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
3. noun. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
4. noun. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
5. noun. The fundament; the buttocks.
6. noun. An abyss.
7. noun. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
8. noun. The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
9. noun. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
10. noun. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
11. adjective. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
12. transitive verb. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
13. transitive verb. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
14. transitive verb. To reach or get to the bottom of.
15. intransitive verb. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
16. intransitive verb. To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
17. noun. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
18. transitive verb. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
19. noun. a cargo ship

    "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"

    Synonyms: freighter, merchantman

20. noun. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

    "he deserves a good kick in the butt"

    "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

    Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament

21. noun. the lower side of anything

    Synonyms: underside, undersurface

22. noun. the lowest part of anything

    "they started at the bottom of the hill"

23. noun. a depression forming the ground under a body of water

    "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"

    Synonyms: bed

24. noun. low-lying alluvial land near a river

    Synonyms: bottomland

25. noun. the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
26. verb. come to understand

    Synonyms: fathom, penetrate

27. verb. strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
28. verb. provide with a bottom or a seat

    "bottom the chairs"

29. adjective. the lowest rank

    "bottom member of the class"

30. adjective. situated at the bottom or lowest position

    "the bottom drawer"

Synonyms

freighter, merchantman, arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rump, seat, stern, tail

Common word forms

bottoms, bottomed, bottomer, bottoming, bottomless

Words from these letters

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