Meaning & use
Culminative
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Reaching or forming a climax or highest point; culminating.
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The festival's culminative event was a fireworks display over the harbor.
Years of research led to a culminative discovery that reshaped the field.
A note on using this word
A less common variant of 'culminating'; most modern style guides prefer 'culminating' in the same sense.
Words with a similar meaning
culminatingclimactic
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