climax
Noun
- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
- "the climax of the artist's career"
- the decisive moment in a novel or play
- "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
- the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- the most severe stage of a disease
- arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
- A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
- An instance of such an ascending series.
- The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
- A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly
- A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
- The final term of a rhetorical climax.
- A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
- The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
- A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
- The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
Verb
Verb Forms: climaxed, climaxing, climaxes
- To reach the most intense or dramatic point.
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
- To form the climax to; to be the climax of.
Examples
- The game seemed to CLIMAX with his opponent’s final bingo, ending the tension.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “I lean, slant”).
Synonyms
coming, culminate, culmination, flood tide, orgasm, sexual climax, apex, auxesis, catacosmesis, incrementum
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
climax: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordclimax: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
climax: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary