anticlimactic

adjective

an·​ti·​cli·​mac·​tic ˌan-tē-klī-ˈmak-tik 

-klə-, 

ˌan-ˌtī- 

variants or less commonly anticlimactical

ˌan-tē-klī-ˈmak-ti-kəl, 

ˌan-ˌtī- 

: of, relating to, or marked by anticlimax

anticlimactically

ˌan-tē-klī-ˈmak-ti-ti-k(ə-)lē, 

ˌan-ˌtī- 

adverb

Examples of anticlimactic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With Pogačar all but sealing yellow less than a week into the race, the Tour’s Alpine denouement could have been anticlimactic. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 July 2026

This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

However, the experience of going supersonic as a pilot is significantly less exciting and more anticlimactic than what Hollywood films often show, Less said. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026

So, Alamo decides to kill Rue in an uncharacteristically anticlimactic fashion — by giving her painkillers laced with fentanyl and trusting that the addict will be tempted enough to swallow them. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anticlimactic

• anaphylactic
• extragalactic
• intergalactic
• stereotactic
• chemotactic
• chiropractic
• isotactic
• prophylactic
• climactic
• didactic
• galactic
• syntactic