climactic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cli=mac=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

climactic, 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”)."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

climactic, adj. of or forming a climax.

Derivative

climactically adv.

Etymology

CLIMAX + -IC, perh. after SYNTACTIC or CLIMACTERIC

THESAURUS

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