Word Study
climactic
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, zenithalFor further exploring for "climactic" in Webster Dictionary Online