climax

climax is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
2. intransitive verb. A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
3. intransitive verb. The highest point; the greatest degree.
4. noun. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

   Synonyms: coming, orgasm

5. noun. the decisive moment in a novel or play

   "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"

   Synonyms: culmination

6. noun. arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
7. noun. the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

   "the climax of the artist's career"

   "in the flood tide of his success"

8. noun. the most severe stage of a disease
9. verb. end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

   "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"

   Synonyms: culminate

Synonyms

coming, orgasm, culmination, culminate

Common word forms

climaxed, climaxes, climaxing, climaxless

Words from these letters

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