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
And so the moment collapses into anticlimax.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
The anticlimax preemptively lowers the stakes of this new conflict, though Linklater makes for a gleefully sinister blank slate.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
This Is Spinal Tap was an almost-clinical study in anticlimax, in rock-and-roll humiliation.
—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
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
The anticlimax preemptively lowers the stakes of this new conflict, though Linklater makes for a gleefully sinister blank slate.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
This Is Spinal Tap was an almost-clinical study in anticlimax, in rock-and-roll humiliation.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimax
epilogue
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Another option would be for the sequel to simply pick back up in 1984, prior to the film's epilogue, and continue covering Jackson's life up until around 1992.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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Banerjee, who was born in 1963, offered an effusive epilogue to the modernist exhibit, exploring dimensions, textures and scale that many of her artistic forebears could only dream of.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Anticlimax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimax. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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