bottom
/'bɔtəm/
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Definition
Noun:
- The lowest part or point of something: The part of an object that is furthest down or on which it rests.
- The lowest position in a ranking or competition: The last or least successful position.
- The buttocks: The part of the body on which a person sits.
- The ground beneath a body of water: The bed or floor of a sea, lake, or river.
- The essential character or quality of a person or thing: The fundamental nature.
- A ship, especially a cargo vessel: (Often used in plural, 'bottoms').
Verb:
- To provide with a bottom or foundation: To put a base or lowest part on something.
- To reach or touch the lowest point: To descend to the lowest level.
- To understand the fundamental nature of something: To get to the root cause or truth.
Adjective:
- Lowest in position, rank, or degree: Situated at the very bottom.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- Sign your name at the bottom of the page.
- The team finished at the bottom of the league.
- He slipped and fell on his bottom.
- The treasure was hidden on the ocean bottom.
- She is kind at bottom, despite her tough exterior.
- The company owns a fleet of merchant bottoms.
Verb:
- The cabinet was bottomed with a sturdy piece of wood.
- The stock market bottomed out last month.
- The detective tried to bottom the mystery.
Adjective:
- Please take the book from the bottom shelf.
- He was the bottom student in his class.
Advanced Usage
- "to be at the bottom of": to be the original cause of something.
- Jealousy was at the bottom of their argument.
- "to get to the bottom of": to find out the real cause of a problem or mystery.
- We must get to the bottom of these errors.
- "from the bottom of one's heart": with sincere feeling.
- I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
- "bottom line": the final result or most important factor; the essential point.
- The bottom line is that we need more funding.
- "to hit rock bottom": to reach the lowest possible level or point of despair.
- After losing his job, he felt he had hit rock bottom.
Variants and Related Words
- Bottomless (adj): having no bottom; limitless.
- The story seemed to be a bottomless pit of complications.
- Bottommost (adj): lowest; at the very bottom.
- The bottommost drawer was stuck.
- Bottoms up! (interjection): a phrase used as a toast before drinking, meaning to finish one's drink.
Synonyms
- Noun: Base, foot, foundation, bed, floor, underside, buttocks, rear.
- Verb: Underpin, base, fathom, comprehend.
- Adjective: Lowest, last, undermost, base.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Bottom out: to reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving.
- Economists predict the recession will bottom out by the end of the year.
- Bottom on/upon (archaic): to be based or founded on.
- His theory is bottomed upon years of research.
Related Idioms
- The bottom drops/falls out: a situation suddenly collapses or fails.
- The bottom fell out of the market during the crisis.
- Scrape the bottom of the barrel: to use the last and worst resources or options available.
- Hiring him shows they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
- Bottoms up!: Drink up! (A toast).
- "Bottoms up!" he said, raising his glass.
Adjective
- the lowest rank
- bottom member of the class
- situated at the bottom or lowest position
- the bottom drawer
Verb
- come to understand
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- provide with a bottom or a seat
- bottom the chairs
Noun
- a cargo ship
- they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- he deserves a good kick in the butt
- are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
- the lowest part of anything
- they started at the bottom of the hill
- the lower side of anything