anticlimax
noun/ˈæn.tiˌklaɪ.mæks/US
Etymology
From anti- + climax.
Definitions
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.
A failed or reverse climax
The neighborhood
- synonymbathospartial
- antonymclimax
- antonymcliffhanger
- antonymauxesis
- neighboranticlimactic
- neighborunderwhelm
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for anticlimax. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA