英语词汇“climactic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Something that is the highest or most exciting point is climactic. This adjective is used to describe a scene, event, or action. If you enjoy a good mystery, you probably love the climactic ending, when you find out whodunnit.

Climactic describes the grand finale or the top point of a series of events, and it comes from the word climax. The climactic scene in The Wizard of Oz is when Dorothy and friends face the Wicked Witch of the West, for example. When you finally reach the top of a mountain, you’re at the climactic point! Realizing that mountain’s just a landfill, well, that’s anticlimactic.

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

climactic / climatic

Climactic describes the high point, the most intense part of a movie, play, song, or, well, anything. Climatic refers to the climate, like the climatic changes that turned Santa's workshop into a sauna for elves.

Climactic comes from climax, with the x changed to a ct. A climax is the top point of something, so something climactic describes that intense moment. Climactic isoften used in the negative, anticlimactic, like when there's a build-up to something that falls short. But let's be positive:

But I have seldom seen this climactic moment staged to such haunting effect. (New York Times)

Still, a viewer would have to be made of stone not to get worked up during the stirring climactic section. (Reuters)

The skies were shattered with a final climactic crash of thunder. (Virginia Brooks)

Take out the extra "c," and climatic refers to weather conditions. The word climatic gets thrown around a lot these days, with all the talk about global warming, like the climatic insanity that made it snow on Halloween. FYI: There's no such word as "anticlimatic." Also, climatic changes come from the climate, not the soil:

Warmer and wetter have become cooler and drier, a wholesale change of climatic fortunes. (Bakersfield Now)

This will trigger unpredictable climatic disasters in many parts of the world. (Huffington Post)

Lee eased Louisiana's worst drought since 1902, according to the National Climatic Data Center. (Business Week)

To keep climatic and climactic straight, remember that a climactic moment could be the most intense act yet. Something climactic gives you a kick! But climatic is just air.

WORD FAMILY

climactic: climactically+/anticlimactic: anticlimactical, anticlimactically/anticlimax: anticlimactic, anticlimaxes/climax: anticlimax, climactic, climaxed, climaxes, climaxing

USAGE EXAMPLES

The results, she adds, make Paektu’s apparently weak climactic effect all the more mysterious.

Science Magazine(Nov 30, 2016)

Its climactic event is the revenge killing of a court official by the Asano clan’s forty-seven samurai of the title.

The New Yorker(Nov 23, 2016)

We know from reading our email that many Americans want Mrs. Clinton treated like Mel Gibson in the climactic scene of “Braveheart.”

Wall Street Journal(Nov 23, 2016)

adj consisting of or causing a climax

a climactic development

Ant

anticlimactic

coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot

单词	climactic
释义	climactic (once / 11487 pages) adj Something that is the highest or most exciting point is climactic. This adjective is used to describe a scene, event, or action. If you enjoy a good mystery, you probably love the climactic ending, when you find out whodunnit. Climactic describes the grand finale or the top point of a series of events, and it comes from the word climax. The climactic scene in The Wizard of Oz is when Dorothy and friends face the Wicked Witch of the West, for example. When you finally reach the top of a mountain, you’re at the climactic point! Realizing that mountain’s just a landfill, well, that’s anticlimactic. CHOOSE YOUR WORDS climactic / climatic Climactic describes the high point, the most intense part of a movie, play, song, or, well, anything. Climatic refers to the climate, like the climatic changes that turned Santa's workshop into a sauna for elves. Climactic comes from climax, with the x changed to a ct. A climax is the top point of something, so something climactic describes that intense moment. Climactic isoften used in the negative, anticlimactic, like when there's a build-up to something that falls short. But let's be positive: But I have seldom seen this climactic moment staged to such haunting effect. (New York Times) Still, a viewer would have to be made of stone not to get worked up during the stirring climactic section. (Reuters) The skies were shattered with a final climactic crash of thunder. (Virginia Brooks) Take out the extra "c," and climatic refers to weather conditions. The word climatic gets thrown around a lot these days, with all the talk about global warming, like the climatic insanity that made it snow on Halloween. FYI: There's no such word as "anticlimatic." Also, climatic changes come from the climate, not the soil: Warmer and wetter have become cooler and drier, a wholesale change of climatic fortunes. (Bakersfield Now) This will trigger unpredictable climatic disasters in many parts of the world. (Huffington Post) Lee eased Louisiana's worst drought since 1902, according to the National Climatic Data Center. (Business Week) To keep climatic and climactic straight, remember that a climactic moment could be the most intense act yet. Something climactic gives you a kick! But climatic is just air. WORD FAMILY climactic: climactically+/anticlimactic: anticlimactical, anticlimactically/anticlimax: anticlimactic, anticlimaxes/climax: anticlimax, climactic, climaxed, climaxes, climaxing USAGE EXAMPLES The results, she adds, make Paektu’s apparently weak climactic effect all the more mysterious. Science Magazine(Nov 30, 2016) Its climactic event is the revenge killing of a court official by the Asano clan’s forty-seven samurai of the title. The New Yorker(Nov 23, 2016) We know from reading our email that many Americans want Mrs. Clinton treated like Mel Gibson in the climactic scene of “Braveheart.” Wall Street Journal(Nov 23, 2016) adj consisting of or causing a climax a climactic development Ant anticlimactic coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot
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