record high
All-time temperature ceiling
A record high is the highest level ever measured or recorded for something: Temperatures hit a record high yesterday, The stock market closed at a record high.
The phrase appears in weather reports, financial news, and statistics generally.
As an adjective: record-high inflation, record-high unemployment.
The opposite is record low.
- peakUtmost height attained
- all-timeGreatest ever measured
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- soaringRising effortlessly upward
- unprecedentedNever having occurred before
milestone · breaking · breaking news · charts · off the charts · through the roof · temperature · stocks · spike · climbing · historic · ceiling · maximum · summit · topping · smashing · heatwave · rally
extremity of measurement
record highrecord low
Lowest documented measurement
rock bottom · nadir · trough · floor · bottom
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