anticlimacticadj.
Of the nature of an anticlimax.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [adjective]
disappointing1530
unsatisfactory1637
unsatisfying1656
uncontenting1698
bilking1732
anticlimactic1898
1898 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/3 That sounds a little anticlimactic.
1941 J. C. Ransom New Crit. i. 100 When the artist works over the practical failures in human life, and the ambiguous anticlimactic half-successes.
Derivatives
ˌanticliˈmactically adv.
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1915 W. J. Locke Jaffery xix, I urged, somewhat anticlima[c]tically after my impassioned harangue [etc.].
1917 S. McKenna Sonia i. 37 He began valiantly enough, and then anticlimactically as he caught sight of me, ‘What d'you want?’
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