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anticlimax - Dictionary definition and meaning for anticlimax

ANTICLIMAX

(noun) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
synonyms : bathos
Writers often use figures of speech such as the anticlimax to produce a comic effect. -added by naila_inlas
(noun) a disappointing decline after a previous rise
"the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
It was an anticlimax when the children opened the large parcel and found a couple of books inside. -added by naila_inlas

Selected Mnemonic for anticlimax

(Tag: Global) anticlimax ~ anti + cli (climb) + max; suppose you were trying to climb at tree and you reached almost at maximum height but suddenly u fell down (anti)...
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Mnemonics for anticlimax

(Tag: ) climax of a movie is usually exciting,so anti-climax is unexciting and its dissappointing
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