Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
| Käännös | |
|---|---|
| Adjektiivit | |
| 1. | |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
- Critical or crucial; decisive.
- (medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
- Climactic.
Substantiivit
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
- (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
Esimerkit
- Closely parallel to the belief in unlucky days was the notion of climacteric years, those periodic dates in a man's life which were potential turning-points in his health and fortune.
- It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
- [H]e was in his grand climacterick, with a florid brow, and a step like youthful agility. Sigourney, Lydia.
- I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics.
- Once women have traversed the turmoil of the climacteric years and reached the hormonal steady-state of the post-menopause, there is almost certainly no increase in the incidence of depression.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | climacterics |
| Komparatiivi | more climacteric |
| Superlatiivi | most climacteric |