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Meanings of anti-climax in English

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anticlímax

Stylistic device; subversion of climax.

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Examples for "anticlimax"
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A numbing sense of anticlimax had inevitably pursued them north from Moscow.
The Guardian
2
Presently the others made their entrance upon the scene, a singular anticlimax.
A Splendid Hazard
3
I suppose seeing the real me was a bit of an anticlimax.
Winter door
4
Anything, the management had decided, would be an anticlimax after Rita Rolls.
The Human Factor
5
But in the end it turned out to be a total anticlimax.
News.com.au
Usage of anti-climax in English
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Habit has dulled our perception of the absurd anti-climax involved in it.
By the Christmas Fire
2
It's often an embarrassing, fumbling-in-the-dark experience or a bit of an anti-climax.
News.com.au
3
There was a moment of anti-climax when the Opel refused to start.
Fatherland
4
The East-West matches in Chicago proved more or less of an anti-climax.
The Art of Lawn Tennis
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Some people even claim to have found it all rather an anti-climax.
The Irish Times
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But a hidebound and peripheral court was an anti-climax after cosmopolitan Rome.
The Guardian
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But, as an anti-climax, he always showed up alive in vacation time.
Sacrifice
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It was an anti-climax such as only an Irishman could have achieved.
The World Peril of 1910
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A dream is realized in February, but March might be an anti-climax.
The South African
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The audacious words being spoken, his courage oozed away and anti-climax, followed.
The Trampling of the Lilies
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Cally, after the first shrinking, was possessed by a sense of anti-climax.
V. V.'s Eyes
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To John Aldous Joanne's appearance at this moment was like an anti-climax.
The Hunted Woman
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Conclusion It is tempting to think of the Attlee years as an anti-climax.
The Guardian
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It can't be an anti-climax if nobody expected matters to reach a conclusion.
The Irish Times
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At the very last I thought I saw signs of an artistic anti-climax.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
16
Is there a word for an anti-climax that happens before the actual event?
The Irish Times
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