单词	acme
释义	acmeac‧me /ˈækmi/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINacme Origin: 1500-1600 Greek akme ‘point, highest point’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality. Capitalism specialises in producing useless things, but cigarettes really are the absolute acme of uselessness. Silence of this quality is the acme of chatter. These rifts, and the increasingly separate position taken in Nottinghamshire, reached their acme in 1926. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the acme of something the acme of scientific knowledge As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality. Silence of this quality is the acme of chatter. the acme of something formal the best and highest level of something SYN  pinnacle:  the acme of perfection
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