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also anticlimactical
as in unimportant
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Recent Examples of anticlimactic
By the end of the year, then, the idea of doing disco-ball-dressing seems anticlimactic.
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025
The viral videos of fisticuffs make headlines, but the resulting fines are too anticlimactic to garner much news coverage — even a record fine of $81,950 for a passenger who shoved and punched flight attendants and tried to open the plane door while in flight.
—Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
That show was sort of anticlimactic in that contestants would just fill their shopping carts with frozen turkeys and diapers.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 Dec. 2025
The game itself, however, wound up being anticlimactic.
—Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025
The viral videos of fisticuffs make headlines, but the resulting fines are too anticlimactic to garner much news coverage — even a record fine of $81,950 for a passenger who shoved and punched flight attendants and tried to open the plane door while in flight.
—Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
That show was sort of anticlimactic in that contestants would just fill their shopping carts with frozen turkeys and diapers.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 Dec. 2025
The game itself, however, wound up being anticlimactic.
—Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimactic
Adjective
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Some people are surrounded by care and still feel chronically unimportant.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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One of the votes at issue was about a project in Bonin’s district that sailed through the council, with Price’s vote unimportant to the project’s outcome.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Needless to say, this truly trivial little conundrum led me down a rabbit hole of laundry tips on Reddit.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
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The cost of an independent study is trivial compared to the cost of emergency enforcement, retrofits, and reactive fixes once problems surface.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Johnson’s novella captured specific, sometimes seemingly insignificant, moments in the life of an ordinary logger named Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), who died at 80.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
6 Feb. 2026
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Among life’s great procrastinations, putting off making a will seems to top insignificant things like delaying cleaning the house or starting a homework assignment.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Anticlimactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimactic. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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