climactic

3 definitions found

climactic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Climactic \Cli*mac"tic\, 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").   --S. R.
                                                    Driver.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

climactic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  climactic
      adj 1: consisting of or causing a climax; "a climactic
             development" [ant: anticlimactic]

climactic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "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