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anticlimax - Dictionary definition and meaning for anticlimax

ANTICLIMAX

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  • (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

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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)...

    added by editor1

Mnemonics for anticlimax

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

    added by sravani reddy    editEdit Mnemonic

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