Pinnacle vs Acme - What's the difference?
pinnacle | acme |
The highest point.
A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
(figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
(architecture) An upright member, 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.
* Milton
to put something on a pinnacle
to build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles
The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope)
* (rfdate),
(medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
Mature age; full bloom of life.
Acme is a synonym of pinnacle.
As nouns the difference between pinnacle and acme
is that pinnacle is the highest point while acme is the top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.As a verb pinnacle
is to put something on a pinnacle.As a proper noun ACME is
a generic large company or corporation.pinnacle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.
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* nadirSee also
* acme * apex * peak * summitVerb
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*acme
English
Noun
(en noun)- The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
- The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.
- (Ben Jonson)