anticlimactic
[an-tee-klahy-mak-tik, -kluh-, an-tahy-]
Origin of anticlimactic
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Related Words for anti-climactic
fruitless, indecisive, worthless, unable, unproductive, inefficient, limited, inadequate, inept, null, impotent, powerless, feeble, ineffectual, futile, unsuccessful, unprofitable, incompetent, abortive, barrenExamples from the Web for anti-climactic
Contemporary Examples of anti-climactic
An anti-climactic end is not the World Cup storyline that English fans anticipated.
It was an anti-climactic interlude in a trial that has had many moments of drama.
Hogan says he thinks Carmageddon II will be as anti-climactic as the first.
Despite the anti-climactic day, the appellate trial is now officially underway and as such, the clock is ticking.
Historical Examples of anti-climactic
It was so anti-climactic that Alma broke into an hysterical giggle, cut short by a sob.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908Lucy Maud Montgomery
anticlimactic
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