Definitions for climax

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climax cli·max

Spelling: [klahy-maks]

IPA: /ˈklaɪ mæks/

Climax is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in climax (acilmx).

Definitions for climax

noun

1. the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination:
2. (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.
3. Rhetoric. a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity. the last term or member of this figure.
4. an orgasm.
5. Ecology. the stable and self-perpetuating end stage in the ecological succession or evolution of a plant and animal community.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bring to or reach a climax.

Origin of climax

1580-90; Late Latin Greek klîmax ladder, akin to klī́nein to lean

Examples for climax

You show us as much as you want, from meeting your partner to the climax.

The story has now reached a point which I cannot help regarding as its climax.

This was the climax of the prelate's favour, the apogee of his power.

The solemn mysteries have their place, but it is one of climax.

At the climax of the play, Willy Loman ruefully tells his two sons that he was fired that day from his job.

If he had been waiting for a climax, he was entirely satisfied.

These words brought Pierre's disquietude and exasperation to a climax.

[Laughs] I should have said, “Well, this is certainly a climax!”

But then, as the song reaches its climax, the Marines explode.

And it is that climax where the book and the film diverge the most, and which will probably upset the most people.