Meaning and example
an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
The passage used "nadir" to mean an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.138 places nadir in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 55.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 55.7%
resembling or containing bitumen
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- 55.2%
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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