Synonyms of climaxes

climaxes 1 of 2

noun

plural of climax

1

as in milestones

a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs

the climax of the story occurs when the hero discovers the identity of his father

Synonyms & Similar Words

• milestones
• watersheds
• landmarks
• highlights
• corners
• crises
• turning points
• climacterics
• mileposts
• transformations
• breaks
• metamorphoses
• emergencies
• conversions
• turnarounds
• crushers
• transfigurations
• turnabouts
• extremities
• junctures
• exigencies
• toppers
• crossroads
• clutches
• boiling points
• flash points
• clinchers
• cappers
• breaking points
• crunches
• conjunctures
• crunch times
• zero hours
• Dunkirks
• heads

2

as in culminations

the highest part or point

the climax of her career as a performer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• culminations
• pinnacles
• heights
• tops
• peaks
• zeniths
• crescendos
• apexes
• crests
• summits
• sums
• crowns
• highlights
• noons
• apogees
• capstones
• meridians
• noontimes
• tip-tops
• high-water marks
• heads
• acmes
• high noons
• ne plus ultras
• flowers
• blooms
• blossoms
• glories
• primes
• flood tides
• roofs
• ceilings
• extremes
• tips
• caps
• extremities
• highs
• heydays
• vertices
• highspots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bottoms
• feet
• bases
• nadirs
• abysses
• rock bottoms
• minima

climaxes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of climax

as in culminates

to bring to a triumphant conclusion

organizers climaxed the county fair with a down and dirty pie-eating contest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• culminates
• finishes
• completes
• concludes
• caps (off)
• crowns
• rounds (off or out)
• terminates
• wraps up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of climaxes

Noun

Each concert climaxes with Pinkerton’s sword fight against the Rat Reaperess, leading to the singer’s inevitable defeat. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 29 June 2026

Chases and weird extraterrestrial stuff abounds, leading to one of Spielberg's most gripping climaxes ever. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 June 2026

These two songs function as the record’s thematic and sonic climaxes, respectively. — Raphael Helfand, Pitchfork, 29 May 2026

This year’s sequel climaxes with Grace hijacking her second wedding to a Satanic heir by killing him and banishing his oligarchical cabal to hell. — Judy Berman, Time, 27 May 2026

That climaxes in a kaleidoscope of styles where Esteban, directing one scene, erupts in fury, reverting to a verbal and physical violence which Emilia obviously knew and suffered as child, Sorogoyen explains. — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 May 2026

Via one of popular music’s most stratospherically elevating climaxes, the song shifts into gospel overdrive with the explosive entrance of disco’s mightiest, most visceral vocalist, Loleatta Holloway. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026

Anderson is here for the melodrama, the special lessons and the climaxes that fall flat. — Jessica Lipsky, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026

There was plenty of raw energy in climaxes, sometimes too much for so supportive and reinforcing an acoustic as the Meyerson Symphony Center’s. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026

Verb

The film climaxes with a triumphant visit by the musicians, some in their 90s, to New York’s Carnegie Hall. — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026