anticlimactic

[an-tee-klahy-mak-tik, -kluh-, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. of, like, pertaining to, or expressing anticlimax.

Other Word Forms

• anticlimactically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of anticlimactic¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; anti + climactic

Example Sentences

After the Tut treasures, the rest of the museum, whose remaining 94,000-odd objects are spread over a dozen galleries in a mixed thematic and chronological display, can feel a touch anticlimactic.

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Even for a Shelley-head like me, seeing the crumbling stone steps felt a bit anticlimactic.

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Even if the case ended in an “anticlimactic” fashion, Contreras said that “there has been some accountability” since jurors saw videos of Los Angeles Police Department officers using excessive force against Singh and others.

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That was the highly anticlimactic ending for me.

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It’s an anticlimactic return that feels more intended to scrub the remaining tarnish from her image than it does to induct her back into Vanderpump’s fold.

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