culminate

Speech parts

1. culminate - Adjective

2. culminate - Verb

Meaning

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.

Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

climax crown end result top close complete cap crest stop achieve perfect peak finish arrive
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Antonyms

become beginning approach start bring begin
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Hypernyms

end form make hit reach gain

Hyponyms

crown top

Derivatives

culminated culminating

Examples

Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. Hans Hofmann

The surrender that was to culminate in Munich had begun. William L. Shirer

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. José Martí

Negative dialectics ... does not presuppose the identity of being and thought, nor does it culminate in that identity. Instead it will attempt to articulate the very opposite, namely the divergence of concept and thing, subject and object. Theodor Adorno

The encompassing, creative mind recognizes no boundaries. The mind has ever brought new spheres under its control. All our experiences culminate in the perception of the universe as a whole, with man as its center. Hans Hofmann

Close letter words and terms

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