nadir
NAY-dernounMeaning the lowest point
Memory hook NADA left: rock bottom. Kai has spent every last coin. He shakes his piggy bank and gets nada, nothing at all: his savings have hit their nadir.
The team’s nadir came in October, when it lost five games in a row.
In context After the flood, the town was at its nadir: shops were boarded up, roads were washed out and many families had moved away; yet within five years it had bounced back.
Similar bottom, low point, rock bottom
Opposite peak, summit, top
From an Arabic phrase meaning “opposite the zenith.”