At the greatest extent; maximum.
bad or unfortunate.
Unlucky; unfortunate
Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
Bad
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
To pry; to peep slyly.
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
To become sick or wan.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned