anticlimax
Example Sentences
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There have been mixed reviews of the concert with Pulp guitarist Mark Webber telling BBC 6 Music describing the show as "a slight anticlimax".
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
But it doesn’t quite work, any more than the plot’s occasional references to Carol’s fate — especially after early portents fizzle into anticlimax.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 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
But as quickly as the crisis began, it ended abruptly in a type of anticlimax one day later as Prigozhin's forces stopped their march on Moscow, stood down, and agreed to return to their barracks.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023
I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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