high tide

Questions about high tide

What does high tide mean?

high tide means "the tide when the water is highest".

What is another word for high tide?

Close synonyms include high water, highwater. 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 high tide?

The recorded antonyms are low tide.

Is high tide a common word?

high 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.