climactic

(klī-măk'tĭk) 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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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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adjective

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

adj

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

See words rhyming with "climactic."

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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