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Definitions of anticlimax in various dictionaries:
noun - a disappointing decline after a previous rise
noun - a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career.
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| A conclusion that is far less important or less powerful than expected |
| Well, this is a big letdown |
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| an event or experience that causes disappointment because it is less exciting than was expected or because it happens immediately after a much more interesting or exciting event: |
| a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events. |
| A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events. |
| a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one |
| a disappointing decline after ad previous rise |
| A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career. |
| Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events: After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax. |
| A sudden descent in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential, or an instance of it: "Waggish non-Yale men never seem weary of calling 'for God, for Country and for Yale' the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language ( Time). |
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Anti-climax or anticlimax (that is, the opposite of climax in its various meanings) may refer to:* Anticlimax as a narrative element * Anticlimax as a rhetorical device * Anticlimax, a 1990 book by Sheila Jeffreys * anticlimax, a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae |