Climaxes Synonyms and Antonyms

The highest point or state
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. summits
  2. pinnacles
  3. peaks
  4. apices
  5. crests
  6. meridians
  7. vertexes
  8. crises
  9. comings
  10. top
  11. pitches
  12. limits
  13. acme
  14. extremities
  15. crowns
  16. heights
  17. perihelia
  18. payoffs
Antonyms:
  1. depressions
  2. anticlimaxes
The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. summits
Peak, culmination
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. anticlimaxes

Words Related to Climaxes

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Climaxes Sentence Examples

  • The movie climaxes in a major battle of man and beast, and other minor scenes feature the White Witch's cruelty toward the captive Edmund and the attack of a fox by a pack of wolves.

  • The elaborate choral writing sometimes rises to almost Hellenic regions of dramatic art; and there is no crudeness in the passages that carry on the story quietly in reaction from the climaxes - a test far too severe for Tannhauser and rather severe for even the mature works of Gluck and Weber.

  • Just under two minutes long, Eruption climaxes with a tapping solo at the end that introduced the world to this incredible new technique.

  • He was capable at times, nevertheless, of highly sonorous periods with superb climaxes; yet his favourite style was the conversational.