anticlimactic
Example Sentences
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The general tone of the film is anticlimactic, but Thomas and Duke are on trajectories that spell out “tragedy” in furnace smoke across a northern English sky.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
For those who don’t follow industry shenanigans too closely, this result seemed to land as a bit of an anticlimactic “Who?”
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026
Even the announcement of the Ashes squad was an anticlimactic foreshadowing of things to come.
From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025
That was the highly anticlimactic ending for me.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025
It feels anticlimactic after everything, but sometimes things don’t end the way you expect them to.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
