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
Any hunting after my kill was sort of an anticlimax.
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Bill Thomas, Outdoor Life, 24 Apr. 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
But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was almost pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
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Bill Thomas, Outdoor Life, 24 Apr. 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
But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was almost pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimax
epilogue
Noun
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The epilogue documents the outcomes for those involved.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Jakob describes the album, which is due out later this year, as an epilogue for a band who never got to say a proper goodbye.—
Jordan Runtagh,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Anticlimax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimax. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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