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''). --S. R. Driver. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
climactic — climactic, climatic, climacteric Climactic means ‘forming a climax’ and is a favourite word of sports reporters and theatre critics • (I pleasurably recall the climactic, closing minutes of the first act Evening Standard, 2006) climatic means… … Modern English usage
climactic — index critical (crucial), last (final) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
climactic — 1872, from CLIMAX (Cf. climax), apparently on the analogy of syntax/syntactic … Etymology dictionary
climactic — / climacteric [adj] decisive acute, climactical, critical, crucial, desperate, dire, paramount, peak; concept 567 Ant. anticlimacteric, anticlimactic, bathetic, indecisive, trivial, undecided … New thesaurus
climactic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ forming an exciting climax. DERIVATIVES climactically adverb … English terms dictionary
climactic — [klī mak′tik] adj. of, constituting, or in the order of a climax: also climactical climactically adv … English World dictionary
climactic — , climatic, climacteric Climactic means appearing at a climax ( the climactic scene in a movie ); climatic means having to do with climate and weather ( the climatic conditions of the Brazilian rainforest ); climacteric is a noun signifying a… … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
climactic — [[t]klaɪmæ̱ktɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED: ADJ n A climactic moment in a story or a series of events is one in which a very exciting or important event occurs. [FORMAL] ...the film s climactic scene … English dictionary
climactic — adjective a climactic period of time or situation is one in which very important or exciting events happen: the hero, dodging bullets in the movie s climactic scene climate / klaImit/ noun (C) 1 a situation that exists at a particular time,… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
climactic — adjective Date: 1870 of, relating to, or constituting a climax < the film s climactic scene > • climactically adverb … New Collegiate Dictionary
