as in epilogue
a dull or disappointing ending or result
The last chapter of the book was an anticlimax.
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Recent Examples of anticlimax
After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was almost pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax.
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Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
Her attitude is less one of fear than of gnawing bitterness at the anticlimax of her ending.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
When the cousins leave the tour to find the house where their grandmother grew up, they are headed for an anticlimax.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
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Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
Her attitude is less one of fear than of gnawing bitterness at the anticlimax of her ending.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
When the cousins leave the tour to find the house where their grandmother grew up, they are headed for an anticlimax.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimax
epilogue
Noun
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Audiences who don't immediately switch over to something else at the film's conclusion will be treated to a fun mid-credits scene that acts as a sort of epilogue to the film.—
Lauren Huff Published,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
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The carnage leads to a sigh of an epilogue that seems, without giving anything away, like a curious letdown, a cruel little snicker from Aster that doesn’t entirely satisfy.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
15 July 2025
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“Anticlimax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimax. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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