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Climax   /klˈaɪmˌæks/   Listen
Climax

noun
1.
The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.  Synonym: flood tide.  "In the flood tide of his success"
2.
The decisive moment in a novel or play.  Synonym: culmination.
3.
The moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse.  Synonyms: coming, orgasm, sexual climax.
4.
The most severe stage of a disease.
5.
Arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness.
verb
1.
End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage.  Synonym: culminate.



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"Climax" Quotes from Famous Books



... and recognizing this fact, Cicero writes earnestly to him,[128] on the eve of his return, to enlist him in support of Milo's candidacy for the consulship. Curio may have just arrived in the city when matters reached a climax, for on January 18, 52 B.C., Clodius was killed in a street brawl by the followers of Milo, and Pompey was soon after elected sole consul, to bring order out of the chaos, ...
— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott
... me of your men, M. Flocon," angrily interposed the Judge. "One of them has given us a touch of his quality. Why should not the other be equally foolish? I quite expect to hear that the Countess also has gone, that would be the climax!" ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... their climax when the little party was seated around the fire with the Indians in ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... no way suggests lunacy; but the young Arab had happened to enter this world on the day of the new moon, which was considered to be a particularly fortunate and brilliant omen at his birth. Whether the climax of his good fortune had arrived at the moment he entered my service I know not; but, if so, there was a cloud over his happiness in his subjection to Mahomet, the dragoman, who rejoiced in the opportunity of bullying the two inferiors. Wat Gamma was a quiet, steady, well-conducted ...
— In the Heart of Africa • Samuel White Baker
... a wilful anti-climax to her speech, and, as Stair knew very well, not in the least finishing as she had meant to. But her housekeeping pride was aroused. He must eat. She would heap his plate. She had heard him late last night moving about. Had he not slept well? That was ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett


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