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climactic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of climactic

of, relating to, or being a major turning point

The French Revolution is usually regarded as one of the climactic events in modern European history.

Synonyms of climactic

apocalyptic (also apocalyptical)

Words Related to climactic

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

Near Antonyms of climactic

anticlimactic (also anticlimactical)

inconsequential, indecisive, insignificant, noncritical, trivial, unimportant

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