SUMMITS Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of summit

as in pinnacles

the highest part or point a new movie that some enthusiastic reviewers are already calling the summit of cinematic achievement

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verb

present tense third-person singular of summit

as in ascends

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Four unique climbing routes offer different experiences when climbing the Palisades slope, ranging from small loops of half the mountain to full summits to the top of the 1,200-foot peak. — Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026 We are used to the street closures, the factory shutdowns, the restrictions on driving and internet access during Communist Party conferences, international summits, Tiananmen Square military parades, and the visits of foreign dignitaries. — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 Beijing has long sought Taipei’s exclusion from international summits through diplomatic pressure. — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026 Trump has also failed to hold the annual summits of the Quad, raising doubts that the United States is committed to that security partnership and to preventing Chinese dominance across Asia. — C. Raja Mohan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026 The Big Ten and SEC held a pair of conquer-the-world summits during the 2024-25 school year, seeming ready to direct the future of the sport. — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Hawaii, meanwhile, rightfully earns its place thanks to its dramatic terrain, with 25 active and dormant volcanoes—the most of any state in the study—as well as 543 waterfalls and Mauna Kea, one of the tallest mountain summits in the country. — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026 But despite 45 years of summits and joint declarations, economic and political cooperation has generally lagged behind rhetoric. — Firmesk Rahim, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026 The challenge involves climbing the highest summits in Scotland, England and Wales, Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, within 24 hours. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 July 2026

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Noun

Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
The Ed Sullivan Theater, which first opened in 1927, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 2 July 2026

Definition of pinnacles

Verb

Washington’s offensive line poses too many questions even if Daniels ascends.

— Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
When a bird ascends during a migratory flight, a barometric geolocator records a steep drop in air pressure, capturing the timing of departure and arrival for every stop along a bird’s migration route.

— Stephanie Szarmach, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of ascends

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Sailing through the Drake Passage is like being on a mountain bike and joining in with a herd of stampeding bison, or like paragliding between Alpine peaks in the middle of the wildest storm.

— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
Reilly’s September 10 report found consensus estimates for S&P 500 earnings growth now matching dot-com-era peaks, concentrated overwhelmingly in technology and semiconductor names.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of peaks

Verb

Getting the balance between technology and clinical oversight right is the difference between a productivity tool that scales and one that quietly creates new forms of risk.

— Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
To quantify this effect, the team modeled the drop as a conducting sphere hovering over a conducting wall, then calculated how the field strength scales with distance.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of scales

Noun

This vortex comes with lower air pressure and atmospheric heights around its center, cooling down temperatures nearly evenly and producing extra cloud cover in its wake.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026
The world of comic art is being elevated to new heights thanks to the medium’s prominence in the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of heights

Noun

Lunar eclipses, on the other hand, tend to coincide with powerful culminations, emotional revelations and the release of something that’s reached its natural conclusion.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
Full moons are culminations — don’t forget to pause and see what’s already come full circle before rushing into more.

— Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025

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