climax
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
the climax of the artist's career
Types & categories
- juncture hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- windup derivation
- climax derivation
- climax derivation
- culmination derivation
Sense 3 noun
the decisive moment in a novel or play
the deathbed scene is the climax of the play
Types & categories
- moment hypernym
Parts & wholes
- story part holonym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 noun
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Types & categories
- consummation hypernym
- male orgasm hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
the most severe stage of a disease
Types & categories
- stage hypernym
Related & opposite
- climactic derivation
Sense 6 noun
arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
Types & categories
- rhetorical device hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | climactic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | juncture |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | windup |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | culmination |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | end |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | crown |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | culminate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | climactic |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | story |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | moment |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | come |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | climactic |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | consummation |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | male orgasm |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | climactic |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | stage |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | rhetorical device |