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Climactic   /klaɪmˈæktɪk/   Listen
Climactic

adjective
1.
Consisting of or causing a climax.





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"Climactic" Quotes from Famous Books



... in that slow climactic inflection that made whatever he said so indisputable. It was not unlike the minister's voice, I thought; and, my glance chancing to fall on the opened Bible, I was about to question him, when the door was pushed back hurriedly, admitting ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... her plots and their family likeness, warm praise is due for the skill with which they are conducted; they are neatly articulated, the climactic effect is, as a rule, beautifully graduated and sure in its final force: the multitude of littles which go to make up the story are, upon examination, seen to be not irrelevant but members of the one body, working together towards a common end. It is ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton


Words linked to "Climactic" :   climax, anticlimactic


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