anticlimaxes

Meaning of anticlimaxes

plural noun
  1. a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events.
    the rest of the journey was an anticlimax by comparison
    a sense of anticlimax and incipient boredom

Information about anticlimaxes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of anticlimaxes is: anticlimax.
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Hyphenation of anticlimaxes

an-ti-cli-maxes

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
  • anticlimaxes is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

anticlimaxes synonyms

Meaning a person or thing that causes disappointment:

disappointment

Meaning a feeling of disappointment or depression:

comedown

Meaning a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be:

disillusionment

Meaning (especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous:

bathos

Meaning an event or period that is spoiled by constant or heavy rain:

washout

anticlimaxes antonyms

Meaning a great victory or achievement:

triumph

Meaning the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; the culmination:

climax

Words that rhyme with anticlimaxes

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