1. A disappointing decline after a previous rise
   "the anticlimax of a brilliant career" 
2. A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
   - bathos

Derived forms: anticlimaxes

See also: anticlimactic

Type of: close, closing, conclusion, downfall, end, ending, fall

Part of: story

Encyclopedia: Anticlimax

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• send away
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