Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
- 2intransitive 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.
- 3intransitive verb
The highest point; the greatest degree.
- 4noun
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- 5noun
the decisive moment in a novel or play
"the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
Synonyms
- 6noun
arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
- 7noun
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"
- 8noun
the most severe stage of a disease
- 9verb
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
"The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
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