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pinnacle
pinnacle is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An architectural member, upright, and 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, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
An architectural member, upright, and 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, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.
- 2noun
Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
- 3transitive verb
To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
- 4noun
(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower
- 5noun
a lofty peak
- 6noun
the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
"his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"
"the artist's gifts are at their acme"
- 7verb
raise on or as if on a pinnacle
"He did not want to be pinnacled"
- 8verb
surmount with a pinnacle
"pinnacle a pediment"
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