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climactericadjective of, relating to, or being a major turning pointas the war reached its climacteric phase, the atrocities dramatically increased, both in number and brutality apocalyptic(also apocalyptical), climactic apical, apogean, crestal, crowning, culminating, high, highest, meridiancritical, crossover, crucial, fateful, life-and-death(also life-or-death), vitalcataclysmal(or cataclysmic), earthshaking, epochal, momentousdeciding, decisive, payoff, pivotal, watershedgo-no-go, make-or-break anticlimactic(also anticlimactical)inconsequential, indecisive, insignificant, noncritical, trivial, unimportant a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurshistorians attempting to pinpoint the Roman Empire's climacteric, that precise moment when it began its long downhill slide climax, corner, landmark, milepost, milestone, turning point, watershed break, capper, clincher, crusher, highlight, topperconversion, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation, turnabout, turnaroundboiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, zero hour in 1582 |