climax

[Cli·max]

When something like a movie or piece of music reaches its most important or exciting part, that's the climax. A climax is a high point.

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Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

Noun
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

Noun
the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"

Noun
arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

Noun
the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist''s career"; "in the flood tide of his success"

Noun
the most severe stage of a disease

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Verb
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"


v. i.
Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

v. i.
A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.

v. i.
The highest point; the greatest degree.


Climax

Cli"max , n. [L., from Gr. ladder, staircase, fr. to make to bend, to lean. See Ladder, Lean, v. i.] 1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill. 2. (Rhet.) A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise above its predecessor in impressiveness.
"Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax.
3. The highest point; the greatest degree.
We must look higher for the climax of earthly good.
To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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Usage Examples

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

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