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climacterical

climacterical is the archaic form of climacteric.

Meaning of climacteric

Adjective

climacteric (comparative more climacteric, superlative most climacteric)

  1. Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
    • Closely parallel to the belief in unlucky days was the notion of climacteric years, those periodic dates in a man's life which were potential turning-points in his health and fortune.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 596
  2. Critical or crucial; decisive.
    • The seeds of a climateric insurrection against the hypocrisy of cultural norms.1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7
  3. Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
  4. Climactic.
  5. (of fruit) That continues to ripen after being harvested.

See all 8 meanings of climacteric

Forms of climacterical

Adjective
comparativemore climacterical
superlativemost climacterical
Noun
pluralclimactericals

Questions about climacterical

What is climacterical the archaic form of?
Climacterical is the archaic form of climacteric.

Words near climacterical in the dictionary

  1. Climacos
  2. climacter
  3. climacteria
  4. climacterial
  5. climacteric
  6. climacterical
  7. climacterically
  8. climactericals
  9. climacterics
  10. climacterid
  11. climacterids

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