climactically
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7.7
- adverb
- /klaɪˈmæktɪkli/
- The novel builds tension until climactically, the truth about the protagonist's past is uncovered.
Examples
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As a romantic love story, it is not climactically erotic.
Academic text (1990) -
So for the same reason, climactically, what goes on in a daytime cycle actually goes on in a seasonal cycle.
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We feel like the Trans Siberian Railway series ended very anti climactically because we didn't vlog the last two days.
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Yet her truest learning happens climactically: what is enacted by the text, at certain moments, is both the coming to knowledge and the coming to language of the erotic, in the same instant, as virtually the same event.
Academic text (1990) -
The economically depressed and climactically vulnerable island, which spends nearly as much money on petroleum-based products as it receives from all of its exports, hopes to become 100 percent renewable energy-based by 2020.
Academic text (2001) -
So those are inversion layers that so they're, they're climactically susceptible to trapping smog.
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At the conclusion of Carol Shields' final novel Unless (2000), the mysterious trauma that has been haunting the narrator Reta's teenaged daughter, Norah, is climactically revealed.
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In the movie, the hero and the villain climactically face each other in a thrilling battle.
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The concert ended climactically with a stunning fireworks display that left the audience cheering.
Synonyms
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4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
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Etymology
Climactically comes from climax, a word that originally meant a 'ladder' or 'stair', giving the image of moving up to the highest step. Think of climb — to go up — so climactically means doing something in a way that reaches the most exciting or highest point.