climactic
- adjective
- /klaɪˈmæktɪk/
- The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution.
- a climactic moment
- a climactic scene
- a climactic stage
Sorry it wasn't as climactic as I was hoping.
- Sorry it wasn't as climactic as I was hoping.
- Here's what I take to be the climactic paragraph in in Bohr's paper.
- And that's what's going to bring us to the final push and the climactic moment in the movie.
- What was your thought process behind that episode, especially getting to that climactic ending?
- But we're there's this climactic scene and big scene in Succession, this big yard, this giant party by a river.
- The horror, the heroism, the twisted machines, the courage and the cowardice Lives, changing, intersecting and ending, all in a single climactic moment.
- Like some climatic, climatic, cinematic, climactic, there we go, climactic, some cinematic presentation.
- And at this point of this sort of level of climactic crisis in every area, the heart will never fail you.
Examples
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It's just marvelous that I now have such a climactic ending to my film.
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The student teaching internship has been viewed as a climactic experience in teacher education programs.
Academic text (2003) -
A climactic end to the affair!
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And that's what's going to bring us to the final push and the climactic moment in the movie.
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The climactic line in the novella is he realises that he had lived his life wrong.
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The third film reaches its three-way climactic battle: the two human factions and the Na'vi.
Blog text (25) -
The congregation is on its feet chanting the AVINU MALKENU, the climactic prayer of the day.
Fiction book (2001) -
The climactic event of my academic career is in two hours.
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The student teaching internship has been viewed as a climactic experience in teacher education programs.
Synonyms
Reaching the highest or most important point in a process
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word climactic comes from climax, from a Greek word klimax that meant 'ladder' or 'top step', so you can picture reaching the highest point. That's why something climactic is the most intense or important part of a story or event.