What is another word for pinnacles?

Pronunciation: [pˈɪnəkə͡lz] (IPA)

The word pinnacles refer to something that is at the highest point, peak or summit. There are several other synonyms that can be used to describe pinnacles, such as apex, zenith, acme, climax, summit, summitry, top, height, peak, crest, culmination and climax, amongst others. All of these words describe the highest point of something, whether it is a physical structure, an achievement, or an experience. These synonyms can be used interchangeably to add variation to your writing. Using synonyms ensures that you do not repeat words within your writing, making your work more dynamic and engaging to read.

What are the hypernyms for Pinnacles?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Pinnacles

This we figured out from the hard blue of the ice and its many caverns and pinnacles.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
As he came around the base of one of these, there towering above he caught his first full view of the greater spires, pinnacles, buttresses, and arches of the mountain's crest.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
The ice-cream had been so wonderful-a positive chain of mountains with peaks, and pinnacles, and little lights that shone through the crystals.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann

Famous quotes with Pinnacles

  • You think it a great triumph to make the sun draw brown landscapes for you! That was also a discovery, and some day may be useful. But the sun had drawn landscapes before for you, not in brown, but in green, and blue, and all imaginable colours, here in England. Not one of you ever looked at them, then; not one of you cares for the loss of them, now, when you have shut the sun out with smoke, so that he can draw nothing more, except brown blots through a hole in a box. There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the Gods there morning and evening, — Apollo and all the sweet Muses of the Light — walking in fair procession on the lawns of it, and to and fro among the pinnacles of its crags. You cared neither for Gods nor grass, but for cash (which you did not know the way to get); you thought you could get it by what the calls "Railroad Enterprise." You Enterprised a Railroad through the valley — you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. The valley is gone, and the gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange — you Fools Everywhere.
    John Ruskin
  • Every artificial excavation—every well and cellar—every cut for a fort, common road, railway, or canal—every quarry—every tunnel through a mountain—and every pit and gallery of a mine bored into the solid earth, furnish means of investigating its interior. Still more do the inland precipices, and the rocky promontories and headlands along the rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans; the naked mountain-sides ribbed with strata, that bound the defiles, gorges, and valleys; the ruins accumulated at the feet of lofty pinnacles and barriers, and those that have been transported and scattered, far and wide, over the earth; present us with striking features of the internal structure of our planet. Most of all, do the inclined strata push up their hard edges, in varied succession, and thus faithfully disclose the form and substance of the deep interior, as it exists many miles and leagues beneath the observer's feet.
    Gideon Mantell
  • Ye fetted pinnacles, ye fanes sublime, Ye towers that wear the mossy vest of time; Ye massy piles of old munificence, At once the pride of learning and defence; Ye cloisters pale, that, lengthening to the sight, To contemplation, step by step, invite; Ye temples dim, where pious duty pays Her holy hymns of everlasting praise - Hail ! Oxford, hail !
    Thomas Warton

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