peaked Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
    peak; top out.
    • That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929
    • Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million
  2. adjective satellite somewhat ill or prone to illness
    indisposed; unwell; sickly; under the weather; ailing; seedy; poorly.
    • my poor ailing grandmother
    • feeling a bit indisposed today
    • you look a little peaked
    • feeling poorly
    • a sickly child
    • is unwell and can't come to work
  3. adjective satellite having or rising to a peak
    • the peaked ceiling
    • the island's peaked hills

WordNet


Peaked adjective
Definitions
  1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.
  2. (Oftener ) Sickly; not robust. Colloq.

Webster 1913