apocalyptic

Synonyms

climactic;

Near Antonyms

anticlimactic (also anticlimactical);

inconsequential, indecisive, insignificant, noncritical, trivial, unimportant;

Related Words

crowning, culminating, high, highest, meridian;

critical, crossover, crucial, fateful, life-and-death (also life-or-death), vital;

cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), earthshaking, epochal, momentous;

deciding, decisive, payoff, pivotal, watershed;

make-or-break;