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
In Bluff, the sun rose on an anticlimax.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 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
Getting that far only to lose in six after the epic Colorado series, again, would have seemed an anticlimax.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023
Yet now that the command was his, the fulfillment of an old and troubled dream, he suffered a hollowness of spirit that had the unmistakable dimension of anticlimax.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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