anticlimactic

variants also anticlimactical

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of anticlimactic His final at-bat: An anticlimactic pop up to center field for the third out in the ninth. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025 The prom itself in American Pie is fairly anticlimactic as far as the completion of the boys’ mission is concerned, and one of them, Jim (Jason Biggs), delivers an impassioned speech about how meaningless the whole enterprise was to begin with. James Mercadante, EW.com, 17 May 2025 Despite a $1 billion shortfall that had to be plugged, the $55 billion budget proved to be anticlimactic, largely hewing to the outline Gov. JB Pritzker offered in February. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025 Yet, even that closing portion left plenty to be desired, since the low-key ending felt pretty anticlimactic compared to the razzle-dazzle from earlier in the evening. Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for anticlimactic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimactic
Adjective
  • This is not to say that the context in which statistics is applied is unimportant.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Though there’s no official acknowledgment that the theory is sound, the series dropped hints all season, including calling the ship heaven, giving max a twin, having Avery panic over a (false) pregnancy and killing off unimportant characters.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Abandoning a cash cow for an unproven idea is not a trivial undertaking.
    Zain Jaffer, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Barbie; Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning; and F1: The Movie are intentionally trivial.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • The general exhaustion consuming investors after months on a hair trigger isn’t an insignificant factor driving that view, according to several market participants, who nonetheless expressed little anxiety about the optimism that has driven stocks to record highs.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
  • That rise is pretty much insignificant, historically speaking.
    Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025

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“Anticlimactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimactic. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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