as in epilogue
a dull or disappointing ending or result
The last chapter of the book was an anticlimax.
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Recent Examples of anticlimax
This Is Spinal Tap was an almost-clinical study in anticlimax, in rock-and-roll humiliation.
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Still, in the warped logic of conspiracy culture, that anticlimax didn’t kill the narrative.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Not that anyone really said that in the two-and-a-half-hour community-board meeting, which ended — unsurprisingly — in an anticlimax.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 June 2025
Her attitude is less one of fear than of gnawing bitterness at the anticlimax of her ending.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Still, in the warped logic of conspiracy culture, that anticlimax didn’t kill the narrative.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Not that anyone really said that in the two-and-a-half-hour community-board meeting, which ended — unsurprisingly — in an anticlimax.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 June 2025
Her attitude is less one of fear than of gnawing bitterness at the anticlimax of her ending.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimax
epilogue
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In 2024, the Reader lost close to a half million dollars and started 2025 by cutting staff and its $4 million budget, seemingly on the verge of its epilogue.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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The record is intended as something like an epilogue to his 2024 album Atlas of Green, which told the story of a musician named Green from the distant future.—
Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Anticlimax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimax. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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