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climactically

climactically adverb: in a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.

Adverb

climactically (comparative more climactically, superlative most climactically)

  1. In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
    • When Ike thinks about why he loves New York, he muses on its “sense of possibility” and the ducks in Central Park and all that, but, climactically, he thinks of being another face in the crowd: “He loves the liberating feeling that this city doesn’t seem to give a damn about him and never did.”2008 January 27, Troy Patterson, “Your Place or Mine”, in New York Times

Forms of climactically

comparativemore climactically
superlativemost climactically

Origin of climactically

From climactic + -ally.

Questions about climactically

What does climactically mean?
Climactically means in a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
What part of speech is climactically?
Climactically is an adverb.

Words near climactically in the dictionary

  1. climacterids
  2. climacterium
  3. climacters
  4. climactic
  5. climactical
  6. climactically
  7. climacturia
  8. climacus
  9. climagraph
  10. climagraphs
  11. climant

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