Crossword clues for climactic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to a climax," 1832, from climax, apparently on the analogy of syntax/syntactic. Related: Climactical.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or constituting a climax; reaching a decisive moment or point of greatest tension.
WordNet
adj. consisting of or causing a climax; "a climactic development" [ant: anticlimactic]
Usage examples of "climactic".
Then, at a climactic moment, the high-strung momentum dissolved in an upswell of revelation, then reconciliation, and finally laughter.
He is to be the final victim, and his death is presumably intended to form the climactic scene of this perfervid drama.
For a company that was born in the Ozarks and that grew big by opening stores in underserved, poor, rural communities, New York represents the climactic prize in its conquest of America.
But Lady Macbeth must be a noctambulist as well as a somnambulist, for her climactic episode brings out the nocturnal shading of the tragedy.
Or pausing with that one arm up and head down in the climactic Vegas way closer to right below our nose.
Bernini room, and the climactic statue filled the screen and pressed against all four edges.
Chief Inspector Teal drew himself up in the full pride of his magnificent climactic moment.
A salmon had been caught by the artist in the midst of its climactic leap for life.
Ellie was enthusiastically readying herself for the climactic scene in which she enjoys sexual relations with both Doc and Michael.
You will come to no harm and will be returned to your seats in time to witness the climactic moments of our play.
Gordon saw in the telestereo and radar screens this climactic struggle which the Ethne had almost reached.
All for those few climactic days when you have a sense of completion or wholeness.
He felt like a general in a bunker, awaiting some climactic, distant battle.
There was one last climactic event to finish out the ups and downs of 1996.
In a climactic battle Goss Carcolo was captured by Kergan Banbeck and forced to emasculate himself with his own knife.