bottoming out
Hitting lowest point
Bottoming out describes reaching the lowest point before stabilizing or recovering.
Markets bottom out during recessions, addicts bottom out before seeking help, cars bottom out when their undercarriage scrapes the ground.
The phrase implies that decline has finally stopped: Housing prices bottomed out in 2012 and began climbing again.
- nadirLowest possible point
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- upturnImprovement in conditions
- troughOpen container for animal feed
- depressionProlonged low state
rebound · improve · rally · recovery · deflation · turnaround · stabilization · bear market · personal growth · catharsis · capitulation · bounce back · valley floor · recession · economic downturn · market correction · resilience · revive
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- hard timeshardship, struggle, struggling, unemployment, tough times
- setbacksfailing, back to square one, stuck, losing, stumbles
- low pointsnadir, low point, depths, pit, trough
- market movementsup, down, rising, falling, increase
bottoming outpeaking
Reaching highest point
topping out · cresting · maxing out · climbing · surging
bottoming outplummeting
Falling steeply and fast
sinking · rebounding · recovering · bouncing back · rallying
bottom, bottoms, bottomed, bottoming, bottomless, outing, outward, outwards, outmost