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climactic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective climactic has 1 sense
- climactic(a = adj.all) Array - consisting of or causing a climax; "a climactic development" Antonym: anticlimactic
Derived forms noun climax3, noun climax2, noun climax1, noun climax4
CIDE DICTIONARY
climactic, a.
Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.
"A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called “ascending rhythm”)."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
climactic, adj. of or forming a climax.
Derivative
climactically adv.
Etymology
CLIMAX + -IC, perh. after SYNTACTIC or CLIMACTERIC
THESAURUS
climactic
acmatic, apical, capital, chief, consummate, head, headmost, highest, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, overmost, paramount, preeminent, summital, supreme, tip-top, top, topmost, ultimate, upmost, uppermost, vertical, zenithal
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