anticlimax
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Anticlimax: How did the World Cup become a venue for the best players in the world to play weeks of subpar soccer?
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2018
After drilling 14 dry holes, Exxon, Shell and three other producers pulled out their rigs, and oilmen now refer to that ill-fated venture as "the Destin Anticlimax."
From Time Magazine Archive
Anticlimax, an-ti-klīm′aks, n. the opposite of climax: a sentence in which the ideas become less important towards the close: also of any descent as against a previous rise—e.g.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Thus we see that the phenomena of Climax, Antithesis, and Anticlimax, alike result from this general principle.
From The Philosophy of Style by Spencer, Herbert
It is from the same unweigh'd Redundancy, and Misapplication of Words, that we so often find this excellent Writer falling into the Anticlimax.
From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf
Vocabulary lists containing anticlimax
Power Prefix: Anti
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