English dictionary

anticlimax

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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

a disappointing decline after a previous rise

noun.event

Examples
The anticlimax of a brilliant career.

Source: WordNet 3.0
a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

noun.communication

Synonyms bathos

Source: WordNet 3.0
A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of <i>climax</i>. It produces a ridiculous effect.

noun

Source: webster1913