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What does climactic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word climactic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or constituting a climax; reaching a decisive moment or point of greatest tension.
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It's the big climactic chapter that had her first whimpering, then sniffling, and finally cheering.
You always know you're in trouble when the philosophy of a film is summed up unironically in the climactic high school graduation speech.
He bulled forward like the heavyweight boxer of old, scoring nine times in eight climactic games.
The guitars are flat and muted, the vocals spare and disaffected, and the theatrical, climactic scream-along choruses are absent.
During the climactic gun battle, he's hopelessly outnumbered by the gang who are shooting up the town to get him.
During the film's climactic plane crash sequence, you can feel the bass rumble and the rear speakers roar to life.

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