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Definition of bottom :
1. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
2. An abyss.
3. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
4. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low- lying ground; a dale; a valley.
5. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
6. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
7. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
8. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
9. The fundament; the buttocks.
10. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
11. The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
12. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
13. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; - followed by on or upon.
14. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
15. To reach or get to the bottom of.
16. To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
17. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; - usually with on or upon.
18. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
Synonyms:
lower, brim, substratum, coffin nail, screw, actually, croup, buttock, status, cause, get across, freighter, target, cataract, down, buttocks, stub, dawn, cigarette, infiltrate, support, groundwork, privy, bottoms, fag end, branch, stinkpot, channel, hind end, screwing, skunk, bottomland, floor, rotter, idler, empennage, over, bunghole, bevel, bed, top, tramp, substructure, understructure, layabout, interpenetrate, breeches, really, rank, permeate, riddle, hindquarters, merchant ship, crapper, pervade, crumb, potty, seam, bight, prat, poorest, scum bag, diffuse, bottommost, roll in the hay, sunken, ranking, confluence, quarter, arsehole, britches, piece of tail, shag, nethermost, goat, basis, rock bottom, low-level, butt, asshole, edge, perforate, tier, get through, can buoy, stratum, position, tail assembly, can, basically, commode, worst, laughingstock, essentially, below, penetrate, origin, back end, fundament, shadower, buns, tin can, female genitalia, baggies, nooky, start, core, tooshie, stool, place, nookie, center, subnormal, grade, keister, tin, apex, shtup, ground, caste, loafer, dirty dog, hub, female genitals, merchantman, pot, chinos, toilet, nates, hobo, poop, corner, bum, underpinning, fall into place, cascade, arse, tush, capri pants, inferior, bottom of the inning, backwater, croupe, female genital organ, cornerstone, footing, cigaret, sink in, tail end, undermost, bayou, canful, shadow, butt end, focus, so-and-so, after part, click, butt joint, do-nothing, git, come home, chaps, fathom, lowermost, stinker, minimal, lowlife, depressed, imbue, blue jeans, lav, quick, stooge, back tooth, sound, minimum, bump, confines, layer, echelon, puke, cheek, nether, throne, heart, rat, rear end, high, cargo pants, peak, john, bathroom, bun, undersurface, root, piece of ass, ass, bell-bottoms, lavatory
bottom (part of speech: noun)
foundational, basic, basement, lowest, foot, depths, underneath, foundation, elementary, fundamental, nadir, underside, base, underlying, sole
low (part of speech: adjective)
level, low, flat, deep, short, stumpy, squat
back (part of speech: noun)
end, hindmost, back, aftermost, posterior, tail, rear
lowness (part of speech: noun)
hollowness, deepness, shortness, lowness
unsuccessful (part of speech: adjective)
counterproductive, fruitless, abortive, unsuccessful, failed, bungled, botched, unproductive, disastrous, in vain
rear (part of speech: noun)
caboose, backside, hind, derriere, fanny, rump, stern, behind, seat
Usage examples:
- Nevertheless, he was a man of fine, generous nature at bottom, a good brother and a worthy friend. - "Hoosier Mosaics", Maurice Thompson.
- I waited a moment at the bottom, and was just going to step off when I remembered that I ’ ad got my boots on, and I ’ ad to go up agin and take ’ em off. - "Project Gutenberg, Deep Waters, by W.W. Jacobs", W.W. Jacobs.
- After all, at the bottom of her heart she had known he wouldn't. - "The Dark Tower", Phyllis Bottome.