ANTICLIMACTIC Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

anticlimactic

adjective

variants also anticlimactical

Definition of anticlimactic

as in unimportant

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Recent Examples of anticlimactic Rarely has a document been at once as mysterious and anticlimactic as the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 election, which, after much drama and angst, was finally published on Thursday. — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 29 May 2026 As far as Big Reveals go, Agnes’s parentage is extraordinarily anticlimactic. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026 Critics called the finish cheap, staged and anticlimactic. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026 After 24 meetings of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, the committee issued, in its 25th and final meeting, a damning and perhaps even anticlimactic report. — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 16 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for anticlimactic

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Adjective

The Analyst can spend all their time answering urgent but unimportant requests.

— Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Wright agrees that the findings shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that omega-3s are unimportant for the brain.

— Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 14 July 2026

Definition of unimportant

Adjective

Ireland’s Strategy For Quantum Technologies Building and sustaining a new industry is never a trivial undertaking.

— Dr. Jonathan Reichental, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Justice John Dixon said Bauer Media had failed to show the claims made about Wilson were substantially true or trivial.

— Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

Definition of trivial

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Prostate biopsies are lucrative for urologists, who can do them in their practice and therefore have an incentive to order them, and so is finding clinically insignificant cancers that can be actively monitored, potentially through further biopsies.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026
Another not insignificant part of all of this is the price starting pitchers, even rental starting pitchers, commanded at the deadline.

— Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

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