anticlimax
Example Sentences
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In the end, the whole ruse felt like a bit of an anticlimax, but it did at least add extra spice to the start of the series.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
Indeed, the end even of a great mystery can feel like an anticlimax.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
The world-ending conflagration Wagner intended for the ending was a fire-free anticlimax at the bottom of an empty pool.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
This seemed to Mrs. Hubbard to be a dramatic climax rather than an anticlimax.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Vocabulary lists containing anticlimax
Power Prefix: Anti
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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