climax

1. 1.

   end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

   “The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace”

   Synonymsculminate

   Broaderend

   Narrowercrown

Other forms of climax

plural

climaxes·

past tense

climaxed·

present participle

climaxing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about climax

What does climax mean?

climax means "the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in climax?

climax has 2 syllables: cli-max. The stress falls on "cli". In IPA it is /ˈklaɪˌmæks/.

What is another word for climax?

Close synonyms include flood tide, culmination, orgasm, sexual climax, coming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is climax a common word?

climax is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with climax?

2 words rhyme with climax. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.