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CLIMACTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does climactic mean?
• CLIMACTIC (adjective)
The adjective CLIMACTIC has 1 sense:
1. consisting of or causing a climax
Familiarity information: CLIMACTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Consisting of or causing a climax
Context example:
a climactic development
Antonym:
anticlimactic (coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot)
Derivation:
climax (the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse)
climax (the decisive moment in a novel or play)
climax (the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding)
climax (the most severe stage of a disease)
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