ăn'tē-klī'măks', ăn'tī-
One that disappoints.
The definition of bathos means an abrupt switch in writing style from fancy and epic to common and trivial, whether in wording or subject.
The definition of a drop is a small amount of something, especially a liquid.
Descent is defined as going downward or falling, the decline of a population or area's moral values, or an individual's ethnic background.
A physiological response in lactating females, activated usually in response to sucking or crying by an infant, in which milk previously secreted into the alveoli of the breasts is released into the ducts that lead to the nipple.
A calm, mellow period experienced after the initial high from taking drugs
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damp-squib
(Idiomatic, by extension) Anything that doesn’t work properly, or fails to come up to expectations.
The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short:
The final statement in such a series.
anti-climax
after-thought
unknown-quantity
under-statement
Find another word for anticlimax. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for anticlimax, like: disappointment, bathos, drop, descent, decline, letdown, comedown, deflation, bathetic, damp-squib and failure.
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