| Noun | 1. | climax - the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"juncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions" | |
| 2. | climax - the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" | |
| 3. | climax - the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourseconsummation - the act of bringing to completion or fruition male orgasm - an orgasm accompanied by the sensation of ejaculation of semen | |
| 4. | climax - the most severe stage of a diseasedegree, stage, level, point - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" | |
| 5. | climax - arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulnessrhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | |
| Verb | 1. | climax - end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"crown, top - be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting" end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" | |