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climactic

 
(klī-măk'tĭk) pronunciation also cli·mac·ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl)
adj.
Relating to or constituting a climax.

climactically cli·mac'ti·cal·ly adv.

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Fowler's Modern English Usage:

climactic, climatic, climacteric

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Climactic means 'forming a climax' and is a favourite word of sports reporters and theatre critics
(I pleasurably recall the climactic, closing minutes of the first act—Evening Standard, 2006)
; climatic means 'relating to climate' and typically modifies words such as conditions, factors, fluctuations, change, variation, and so on
(He takes a look at what climatic change could mean for the flora and fauna of the British mainland—New Statesman, 1992)
; and climacteric is a noun meaning 'the period of life when fertility and sexual activity are in decline'.

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Roget's Thesaurus:

climactic

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adjective

    Of or constituting a climax: crowning, culminating, peak. See high/low, over/under.

Antonyms by Answers.com:

climactic

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adj

Definition: decisive
Antonyms: anticlimactic, bathetic, indecisive, trivial, undecided

Translations:

Climactic

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - med karakter af højdepunkt

Nederlands (Dutch)
leidend tot een climax

Français (French)
adj. - climatique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - sich steigernd

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κλιμακούμενος, κλιμακωτός, κορυφούμενος, ανοδικός, εντεινόμενος

Italiano (Italian)
climaterico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - climático

Русский (Russian)
климактерический, решающее сражение

Español (Spanish)
adj. - culminante

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - kulminerande

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
渐层法的, 高潮的, 顶点的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 漸層法的, 高潮的, 頂點的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 절정의, 점층법의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 最高潮の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مثير جدا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮של שיא, של פסגה‬


 
 
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American Heritage Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
 Fowler's Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press. © 1999, 2004 All rights reserved.  Read more
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