Words and phrases that have a meaning related to climax: (142 results)
Often used in the same context:
denouement, crescendo, coda, anticlimax, fever pitch, conclusion, apotheosis, melodrama, epic, cliffhanger, riveting, engrossing, finale, suspense, danse macabre, spectacle, prelude, accelerando, zenith, subplot, culmination, interlude, apogee, grand guignol, protagonists, countdown, psychodrama, fanfares, potboiler, cliffhanging, drama, peroration, playlet, epilogue, roundelay, decrescendo, farce, catharsis, steaminess, subtext, dies irae, pinnacle, sophoclean, poignance, passacaglia, tragi, finality, storyline, inexorability, caesura, curtain raiser, end, bravura, dramatization, christmastide, plotline, languor, stage, endings, pathos, narrative, razzmatazz, liebestod, bathos, jollity, inconsequentiality, valediction, goose bump, stageplay, endgame, opera buffa, tearjerking, fadeout, gotterdammerung, tawdriness, fantasia, twists, prefiguring, cathartic, lurches, scena, poignancy, pulsating, elegiac, dirge, threnody, portent, tearjerker, triteness, staginess, swan song, showdown, thriller, action replay, tumults, presentiment, evocation, goosebump, swansong, contrivance, earnest, slapstick, climaxes, ending, epiphany, consummation, showcase, close, downfall, fruition, centerpiece, comeback, beginning, catastrophe
More specific:
crown, male orgasm, top
Appears in the definition of:
anticlimactic, climactic, ecological succession, succession, suspense, unenviable
Part of:
story
More general:
cease, degree, finish, instant, juncture, level, minute, moment, occasion, point, rhetorical device, second, terminate
Synonyms:
Also try:coming, culminate, flood tide, orgasm, sexual climax
— Adjectives for climax: anti, dramatic, fitting, grand, final, sexual, very, emotional, tragic, real, natural, more...
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