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climacteric
Synonyms and Antonyms of climacteric
- as the war reached its climacteric phase, the atrocities dramatically increased, both in number and brutality
apocalyptic (also apocalyptical), climactic
apical, apogean, crestal, crowning, culminating, high, highest, meridian
critical, crossover, crucial, fateful, life-and-death (also life-or-death), vital
cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), earthshaking, epochal, momentous
climacteric
Synonyms and Antonyms of climacteric
- historians attempting to pinpoint the Roman Empire's climacteric, that precise moment when it began its long downhill slide
break, capper, clincher, crusher, highlight, topper
conversion, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation, turnabout, turnaround
boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, zero hour
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