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climactic/climacteric
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decisive |
| Synonyms: | acute, climactical, critical, crucial, desperate, dire, paramount, peak |
| Antonyms: | anticlimacteric, anticlimactic, bathetic, indecisive, trivial, undecided |
| Main Entry: | optimum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | best |
| Synonyms: | -carat, A1, ace, capital, choice, choicest, excellent, flawless, gilt-edge, greatest, highest, ideal, matchless, maximum, most advantageous, most favorable, optimal, peak, peerless, perfect, select, solid gold, superlative, world class |
| Antonyms: | least, poorest, worst |
| Main Entry: | climactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to climax |
| Synonyms: | climatical, critical, crowning, crucial, culminating, decisive, peak, supreme |
| Notes: | climactic means appearing at a climax; climatic relates to weather and climate; one can speak of poor climatic conditions or of a certain climactic development |
| Main Entry: | culminating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | climactic |
| Synonyms: | crowning, peak, supreme, ultimate |
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| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
| Concept: | Edge. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; general |
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-adjectives
border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated, marginated.
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| Concept: | Height. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-adjectives
high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic (big); Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated; upper; highest (topmost); high reaching, insessorial, perching., upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial., overhanging ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed; prominent., tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple; lanky (thin).
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| Antonyms: | lowness |
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| Concept: | Summit. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-adjectives
highest (high [more]); top; top most, upper most; tiptop; culminating; meridian, meridional; capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, topgallant.
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| Antonyms: | base |
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| Concept: | Time. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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-adjectives
continuing; on foot; permanent (durable)
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