Climactic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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