anticlimax

Definitions

noun

1

A failed or reverse climax, particularly

Reed, Superba of yore, made a gallant effort to summon the Promethean fire that once burned within him when it was his “listening senates to command,” but his vaunted perorations proved anticlimaces and his oratory a flop.

If the siege of Boston seemed to end in anticlimax, with the sudden retreat of British military forces, the siege of New York City seen from the inside, from under siege, seemed infinitely more portentous: “The Day is Come that in all Probility on which Depends the Salvation of this Countery.”

2

A failed or reverse climax

3

A failed or reverse climax

Collocations

3

ADJ.

sudden

VERB + ANTICLIMAX

end, like

PREP.

in, with

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

bathos

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Reed, Superba of yore, made a gallant effort to summon the Promethean fire that once burned within him when it was his “listening senates to command,” but his vaunted perorations proved anticlimaces a

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02

If the siege of Boston seemed to end in anticlimax, with the sudden retreat of British military forces, the siege of New York City seen from the inside, from under siege, seemed infinitely more porten

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03

This is more like an anticlimax.

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