flood tide

Questions about flood tide

What does flood tide mean?

flood tide means "the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for flood tide?

Close synonyms include climax, flood, rising tide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of flood tide?

The recorded antonyms are ebbtide.

Is flood tide a common word?

flood tide is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.