Climax
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English
Noun
Climax (plural climaxes)- The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; a culmination
- The turning point in a plot or in dramatic action, especially one marking a change in the protagonist's affairs.
- A stage of ecological development in which a community of organisms, is stable and capable of perpetuating itself.
- (slang) An orgasm.
- (rhetoric): Ordering of terms in increasing order of importance or magnitude.
- (rhetoric): Anadiplosis.
Verb
Climax (third-person singular simple present climaxes, present participle climaxing, simple past and past participle climaxed)
Adjectives for Climax
characteristic; appalling; fit; momentous; glorious; culminant; unforgettable; sad; dramatic; exquisite; progressive; prepared; surprising; approaching; autumnal; frolicsome; disgraceful; ingenious; horrifying; grandstand; poignant; emotional; proper; unexpected; thunderous; oratorical; inevitable; marvelous; stupendous; glowing; inescapable; pulsating; deft; unsatisfactory; lightning-like.
Verbs for Climax
abate at —; ascend to —; culminate in —; deduce —; delay —; delight in —; fore¬shadow -—; hurtle to —; lax after —; post¬pone —; prelude —; prepare for —; rise to —; — dies; — excites; — interests; — occurs; — surprises.
Adverbs for Climax
inevitably; appallingly; momentously; gloriously; unforgettably; dramatically; exquisitely; disgracefully; horrifyingly; poignantly; emotionally; unexpectedly; oratorically; marvelously; stupendously; tragically; comically.
Coordinate terms
- (order by increasing importance): catacosmesis
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Thesaurus
acme, acme of perfection, act of love, adultery, all, apex, aphrodisia, apogee, apoplexy, ass, balling, bench mark, bitter end, breakup, brow, button up, cap, capstone, cardinal point, carnal knowledge, carry to completion, cataclysm, catastrophe, ceiling, chief thing, clean up, close out, close up, cloud nine, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, come, commerce, complete, completion, conclude, conclusion, congress, connection, consummate, consummation, content, convulsion, copestone, copula, copulation, core, cornerstone, coupling, crest, crisis, critical point, crossroads, crown, crux, culmen, culminate, culmination, denouement, diastrophism, diddling, disaster, edge, ejaculate, end, end result, essence, essential, essential matter, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, final result, final stroke, final touch, finale, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, finisher, finishing stroke, fit, fornication, frost, fundamental, get done, get it over, get off, get through, get through with, gist, gravamen, great point, head, heart, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, high point, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, ice, important thing, intercourse, intimacy, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, last act, last stroke, last touch, last word, limit, lovemaking, main point, main thing, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, material point, mating, maximum, meat, meridian, milestone, mop up, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, nth degree, nub, onanism, orgasm, outtop, overarch, overthrow, overtop, ovum, pareunia, paroxysm, payoff, peak, perfect, perfection, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, pith, pivot, please, point, pole, procreation, quake, reach orgasm, real issue, relations, ridge, round out, salient point, satisfy, screwing, seventh heaven, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sine qua non, sky, sleeping with, spasm, sperm, spire, stroke, substance, substantive point, summit, surmount, temblor, terminate, termination, the bottom line, the point, the whole, tidal wave, tip, tip-top, top, top off, top out, tsunami, turning point, ultimate, upheaval, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, venery, vertex, very top, wind up, wrap up, zenith
Etymology
From Latin clīmax from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klimaks, “a ladder, a staircase, a climax in rhetoric”) from κλίνω (klinō, “I lean, slant”).
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