climactically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

climactic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

climactically (comparative more climactically, superlative most climactically)

  1. In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
    • 2008 January 27, Troy Patterson, “Your Place or Mine”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.”