ANTICLIMAXES Antonyms

• the highest point (of something)

• the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars

• (music) a gradual increase in loudness

• (music) gradually increasing in volume

• grow louder

• a final climactic stage

• (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon

• the decisive moment in a novel or play

• a concluding action

• the most interesting or memorable part

• an area of lightness in a picture

• move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

• apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent

• the most extreme possible amount or value

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

• the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

• a V shape

• the highest point (of something)

• a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes

• to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity

• (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or tower

• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

• a lofty peak

• surmount with a pinnacle

• raise on or as if on a pinnacle

• the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected

• growth from increase in cell size without cell division

• a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end

• an episode that ends in suspense