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anti climax
noun as in letdown
Strongest matches
Weak match
noun as in comedown
noun as in descent
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
noun as in anticlimax
noun as in letdown
Strongest matches
Weak match
noun as in comedown
noun as in descent
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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Example Sentences
Berg must have been afraid of anti-climax so he simply imposes complete fiction over actual events.
Judging from the disappointment that myself and the others journalists felt at the anti-climax, I highly doubt it will.
I remember myself—as a sort of anti-climax to that—rather tediously asking my way home.
He insists that this is the only fitting thing to do, that to live after such a reception and ovation would be an anti-climax.
He smiled for an instant; it certainly struck him as rather an anti-climax.
To have beaten Benjamin Franklin with a stick, when he was seventeen years old, seems an absurd anti-climax in American history.
The anti-climax would be too intolerable; and her return might bring reproach upon her idolized husband.
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On this page you'll find 159 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anti climax, such as: anticlimax, comedown, setback, balk, blow, and chagrin.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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