climacteric

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
    — It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
  2. 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).
  3. The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
    — 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.
  2. Critical or crucial; decisive.
    — The seeds of a climateric insurrection against the hypocrisy of cultural norms.
  3. Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
  4. Climactic.
  5. (of fruit) That continues to ripen after being harvested.

词形变化

more climacteric comparative most climacteric superlative climacterics plural

词汇关系

衍生词
nonclimacteric postclimacteric preclimacteric grand climacteric great climacteric
相关词
menopausal

词源

词源 1
From Latin clīmactēricus, from Koine Greek κλιμακτηρικός (klimaktērikós), from κλιμακτήρ (klimaktḗr, “scale, progression, gradation”).
词源 2
From Latin clīmactēricus, from Koine Greek κλιμακτηρικός (klimaktērikós), from κλιμακτήρ (klimaktḗr, “scale, progression, gradation”).
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