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Climactic vs Climatic

Definitions​

  • ‘Climactic’ (adj) means ‘constituting the culmination or resolution to a series of events’.
  • ‘Climatic’ (adj) means ‘relating to the climate’.

What’s the difference between ‘climactic’ and ‘climatic’?​

With just one letter difference, it is easy to see how these two adjectives can be confused. But make no mistake: they are completely different in meaning.

  • ‘Climactic’ qualifies something as reaching its most important point, and can be used in a wide range of contexts and disciplines.
  • ‘Climatic’ relates to the climate, i.e. the weather conditions of a particular place. For this reason, it is most often used in the earth sciences (e.g. physical geography).

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How they’re used​

Example sentences with ‘climactic’

  • The conflict constituted a climactic period in the country’s history.
  • The Geneva conference of 1966 was a climactic event.

Example sentences with ‘climatic’

  • This paper presents a climatic stratification of the Asian environment.
  • We demonstrate the impact of climatic variability for crop production.