Word Meanings - CLIMAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes. 3. The highest point; the greatest degree.

Additional info about word: CLIMAX

A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes. 3. The highest point; the greatest degree. We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. (more info) 1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLIMAX)

• Acme
• Summit
• zenith
• climax
• apex
• pitch
• culmination
• meridian
• Height
• Altitude
• elevation
• tallness
• summit
• exaltation
• top
• acme
• crisis
• Maximum
• Ultimatum
• completion
• utmost
• consummation

Related words: (words related to CLIMAX)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• MERIDIAN
  fr. meridies noon, midday, for older medidies; medius mid, middle + 1. Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course. "Meridian hour." Milton. Tables ... to find
• ZENITHAL
  Of or pertaining to the zenith. "The deep zenithal blue." Tyndall.
• PITCHWORK
  The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
• ZENITH
  cenit, abbrev. fr. Ar. samt-urras way of the head, vertical place; 1. That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir. From morn To noon he fell,
• PITCHER
  1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
• ULTIMATUM
  A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, the final propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of the parties in a diplomatic negotiation; the most favorable terms a negotiator can offer, the rejection of which usually
• PITCH
  See AMERICA (more info) 1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
• PITCHING
  A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. Pitching piece , the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported. (more info)
• CLIMAX
  A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes. 3. The highest point; the greatest degree.
• EXALTATION
  The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. (more info) 1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. Wondering at my flight, and change To this
• COMPLETION
  1. The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott. 2. State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.
• SUMMITLESS
  Having no summit.
• HEIGHT
  AS. heáh, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above
• PITCH-DARK
  Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
• CONSUMMATION
  The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet
• HEIGHTEN
  1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.
• POSTMERIDIAN
  1. Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. 2. Fig., belonging to the after portion of life; late.
• SUPEREXALTATION
  Elevation above the common degree. Holyday.
• SYNCRISIS
  A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. Crabb.
• NONCOMPLETION
  Lack of completion; failure to complete.
• SPITCHCOCKED
  Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.
• RELEVATION
  A raising or lifting up.