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Synonyms for anticlimax
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : an-ti-klahy-maks |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌæn tɪˈklaɪ mæks |
Définition of anticlimax
Origin :- "the addition of a particular which suddenly lowers the effect," 1701, from anti- + climax (n.).
- noun ineffective conclusion
- Even as she bowed, there came a swift realization that she was facing no anticlimax.
- Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
- If there was to be much more of anything, it must have been of anticlimax.
- Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
- After what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.
- Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley
- It would have been seeking an anticlimax to solicit any more in the building.
- Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
- It was an anticlimax which made her almost hysterical to contemplate.
- Extract from : « Antony Gray,--Gardener » by Leslie Moore
- There was anticlimax in Bear Cat after the guns had ceased to boom.
- Extract from : « The Fighting Edge » by William MacLeod Raine
- But we began at the top; and when you have seen the best there is, everything else is anticlimax.
- Extract from : « Peking Dust » by Ellen N. La Motte
- Yes, as you say, a Mamie is an anticlimax to one's best endeavours.
- Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray
- Isabel stared back at her; the announcement was an anticlimax.
- Extract from : « The Portrait of a Lady » by Henry James
- Perhaps he felt, as I did, that the explanation was in the nature of an anticlimax.
- Extract from : « Sonia Between two Worlds » by Stephen McKenna
Antonyms for anticlimax
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