Adjective

(en adjective)

Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.

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(label) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.

Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, pertaining to, or constituting a climax; reaching a decisive moment or point of greatest tension.

* The race ended in a climactic , neck-and-neck scramble for the finish line.