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Definition of Climactic
1. Adjective. Consisting of or causing a climax. "A climactic development"
Definition of Climactic
1. a. Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.
Definition of Climactic
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or constituting a climax; reaching a decisive moment or point of greatest tension. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Climactic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Climactic
Literary usage of Climactic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"A number is an individual of a climactic ... The scale of which the degrees are
climactic ... climactic ..."
2. The Short Story by Henry Seidel Canby (1902)
"... a unified, climactic development. It would be possible to select an episode
such as that with the glove-merchant's wife, or the fille de chambre, ..."
3. The Study of a Novel by Selden Lincoln Whitcomb (1905)
"A novel of character; well unified; technically complex; climactic; ... Well unified;
complex; climactic; emphasizing movement; in broad sense, comic; ..."
4. Technique of the Photoplay by Epes Winthrop Sargent (1916)
"consistent is in some degree anti-climactic. Thus, a situation that arouses the
deep tragic emotions is inconsistent with a comedy purpose, and therefore ..."
5. Record of Christian Work edited by Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt (1910)
"3 that climactic sentence: "In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Again in the great scene at Sodom there is the sentence : "All the nations ..."
6. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"This series, mortem, exilium, dolorem, would seem, at first glance, anti- climactic.
The law of negative climax does not apply, and without doubt mortem is ..."
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